Yukon Currents

Researchers study permafrost in the Yukon River basin.

HEALING THE RIVER

With their lands and waters in peril, Native Tribes and First Nations in Canada and Alaska joined forces to protect the Yukon River basin from contamination by military, mining and municipal sources.

Yukon Currents traces the birth and growth of this grassroots tribal environmental movement, which has become a global model for ecosystem protection. A team of filmmakers documented their story of hope and inspiration for more than a decade.

Princess Lucaj

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

Karin Williams produced and directed. Director of Photography Diana Wilmar shot and edited.

The one-hour film is in post production for 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.