We Live By The River

Permafrost study in the Yukon River basin

HEALING THE YUKON

With their lands and waters in peril, indigenous tribes and nations in Alaska and Canada joined forces to protect the Yukon River watershed from mining, military and municipal contamination.

We Live by the River traces the birth and growth of this grassroots tribal environmental movement which has become a global model for ecosystem protection. For than a decade, a team of documentary filmmakers followed their inspirational story of struggle and survival.

Princess Lucaj

The film is narrated by
Princess Lucaj, writer-director-actor of Gwich’in Athabascan heritage.

Karin Williams produced and directed; cinematographer Diana Wilmar shot and edited.

52 min. documentary film.
Release: January 2010.

Native Spirit Festival

Yukon Circles screened at the 2nd Native Spirit Festival in London during October 08. The film documents tribal environmental protection efforts on the Yukon River in Alaska and Canada.

The event included more than 116 films, 188 screenings, workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances at ten locations.

Also screening at Native Spirit: Na Maka o ka Aina’s The Tribunal, documenting an indigenous trial of the U.S. government on Hawai’i in 1993, and Ian Skorodin’s Crazy Ind’n, an action-figure animation set during a global indigenous revolution.

Global Green Indigenous

Yukon Circles screens in the inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 18-20 April 2008.

Yukon Circles at AIFF

Yukon Circles nominated for Best Documentary Short at American Indian Film Festival screening in San Francisco on Sat 3 Nov 2007 at 12 noon.