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Screen The Klabona Keepers for free for Earth Day 2024!

Our Earth Day initiative is back! For Earth Day 2024, Story Money Impact is helping anyone in Canada to organize their own screening of this powerful film about Indigenous resistance. Simply register using the form below — you can organize a personal viewing, a staff screening, or a public facing event.

On this page, you will find:

  • Registration form

    • We review these registrations and email your link to watch The Klabona Keepers. The film is available between April 8th and April 22nd. If the registration is received after April 8th, you will receive the link within one business day

  • Coordination one-pager to help you vision and plan your screening

  • Discussion guide to help you organise your own post-screening panel or intimate discussion circle

  • Educational resources designed by Docs for Schools to help high school students and teachers

  • Images, posters, social media assets, and other promotional assets you can use to promote your event

  • Calls to action to directly support the Klabona Keepers

The Klabona Keepers is a love letter to the land and a testament to the resilience of the Tahltan people. Overcoming forced displacement and residential school trauma, the Klabona Keepers show what is possible when a small but dedicated group takes a stand.

 
 
 
 
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The Klabona Keepers

2022 | 69 min 5 sec

The Klabona Keepers is an intimate portrait of the inspiring Indigenous families that succeeded in protecting the Klabona Sacred Headwaters in northwest British Columbia from industrial activities. Spanning 15 years of matriarch-led resistance, the film follows a small group of determined elders in the village of Iskut as they heal from colonial wounds to push back against law enforcement, the government, and some of the world’s largest multinational companies.

 
 

Screening Link Registration

 
 
 
 
 
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Screening Resources

Coordinating an event can seem like a huge task, but our team has distilled all the major choices into this handy checklist. Will your event be in-person or virtual? Private or public? Will there be a discussion? Let us walk you through it!

We’ve created a cheat sheet and checklist to help you determine the type of screening you’d like to organize that will work best for you!

 
 
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Docs for Schools: Educational Resource
Docs for Schools: Educational Resource

This guide has been designed to help teachers and students enrich their experience of The Klabona Keepers by providing support in the form of questions and activities. There are a range of questions that will help teachers frame discussion with their class, activities for before, during and after viewing the film, and some weblinks that provide starting points for further research and discussion.

Student Engagement Package
Student Engagement Package

Additional resources for teachers to organize school screenings.

Promotional Photos
Promotional Photos

Ready to use photo stills from the film. Use these to create your own social media assets, posters, or in your newsletter advertising your screening!

Promotional Posters
Promotional Posters

A folder with posters and promotional slides. Print these out and plaster them all over your venue, office, and school to get people excited for your screening! Feel free to add your screening details into the posters.

Promotional Materials Resource Page
Promotional Materials Resource Page

This Electronic Press Kit has synopses, biographies of protagonists from the film, links to reviews in different newspapers, list of the awards this film has won, and other helpful copywriting for you to draft a newsletter, newspaper article, announcement or social media post about your event.

Klabona Keepers: Take Action
Klabona Keepers: Take Action

This link will direct you to the film’s homepage if you wish to get involved directly with the filmmakers.

 
 
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Virtual Panel Discussions

If you can’t organize your own panel, don’t worry! We have four sessions recorded for posterity that you can watch on your own, with your group screening, or to send out as a resource.

 

vancouver Foundation TALKBACK with the Elders

This emotional talkback is introduced by film co-director Tamo Campos, and features Elders from the film and others that participated in protecting the Sacred Headwaters. Irma Nole, Wayne Dennis, Bertha Louie, Rita Louie, Rhoda Quock, Caden Jakesta, Peter Jakesta, and Becca Yala whose English name is Loretta Dennis, Daryl Dennis, and Jim Berkman. Subtitles available.

human rights watch film festival discussion

This powerful discussion from the world festival premiere of the film is moderated by Story Money Impact’s Impact Director Anthony Swan in conversation with Rhoda Quock, Rita Louie, and Bertha Louie, as well as co-director Tamo Campos. It also spotlights the other 11 Klabona Keepers and their families that traveled 5,000 kilometers to Toronto for the premiere. Discussion begins at 6m47s. Subtitled.

 

Vancouver International Film festival Discussion

This intergenerational virtual discussion between a youth and an Elder is moderated by Christine Greyeyes, programmer for VIFF. It features film co-director Tamo Campos. Elder Mary Quock and her grandson Brendon Ducharmes speak from their dual perspectives of being on the blockade as an adult, and as a child. Subtitles available.

 

Canadian CED Network discussion with klabona keepers youth

This moving discussion is moderated by Christine Clarke, a program manager from Canadian Community Economic Development Network. Introduced by co-director Tamo Campos, it spotlights the youth that grew up on the blockade of the movement to protect the Sacred Headwaters. It features Brendon Ducharmes, Frank Tashoots, Mikaela Rae, and Robert Jakesta. On screen ASL interpreter provided.

 

FILMMAKERS’ STATEMENT

“Tamo and Jasper are helping make this film but they didn’t originally come here to make a documentary. 

We met them at our Sacred Headwaters music festival. We invited them to support a blockade with their cameras and bodies. They thought they were coming for two days. We kept them for 7 weeks and had them taking over drills. 

We trust them with this film because they have always taken our leadership. They return every year and have taken on roles working with our youth.”

— Klabona Keeper Rhoda Quock

Directed by filmmakers Tamo Campos and Jasper Snow Rosen and produced by Iskut land defender Rhoda Quock, the film was created over seven years and weaves together 15 years of footage that ranges from tense standoffs with industry and police to intimate moments with Tahltan youth on the land.

The project is a collaboration between non-Indigenous filmmakers and Indigenous elders, who were given ownership of the intellectual property, with all proceeds from the film funds going towards bringing Tahltan elders and youth to live screening events. This allows the Klabona Keepers to share their stories in person, creating dynamic screenings and transformative experiences.