ReFrame Film Festival 2022

Water Stories: Shorts Program

Expired January 30, 2021 4:59 AM
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6 films + livestream in package
Gichitwaa Nibi - Sacred Water (Water Teaching with Elder Dorothy Taylor)
An Elder and a water activist, Dorothy Taylor shares Sacred Water Teachings that call for action to bring balance to the world.
River Queens: Highlight My Strengths
New Zealand national coach and paddler Howard Hyland, 76, returns to his roots to start a competitive waka ama club for youth on the Whanganui River – the first river in the world to be granted personhood. His team, the River Queens, learn as much about paddling as they do life.
Headwaters to Hearts: Education in Action
Headwaters to Hearts is a local story of education in action. Students and teachers at St. Anne CES came together with GreenUP to transform their relationship to water and protect the local watershed by transforming a flood-prone corner of their school yard.
The River Guards
Faced with the enormous environmental and health crisis of a contaminated river and city, "The River Guards" tells the intimate story of a dedicated community of grassroots activists fighting for 30 years against corporate negligence and government bureaucracy, and with a new and contentious cleanup plan for the Housatonic River on the table, how they are dealing with the uncertain future.
Sing Them Home
Dancing the past and future waterways of salmon migration in Michi Saagiig territory.
Starborn
It is 50 years in the future. What will a grandmother tell her grandchildren about the time of pandemic? What can she teach them - about stories, about grief, about hope?
Q&A with The River Guards
Roundtable discussion featuring CARN’s Zach Ruiter and Aaron Kalischer-Coggins & Jane Winn - The River Guards Hosted by Amy Siegel
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Hear from ReFrame Community Partner the Blue Community project about why water is a human right, shared commons and sacred gift in One River, Two Futures: reflections on water

Headwaters to Hearts is a local story of education in action. Students and teachers came together to transform their relationship to water and protect the local watershed. The short film documents one of four student-led retrofits through GreenUP’s Wonders of Water program. Students and staff from St. Anne CES combine forces with GreenUP to protect Jackson Creek by transforming a flood-prone corner of their schoolyard.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Country
    Canada
  • Director
    Karen O'Krafka
  • Cinematographer
    Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Anne-Marie Jackson, Brad Plumton
  • Editor
    Anne-Marie Jackson
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