Client work · 2022
Bringing the Fish Back
A film for Coastal Restoration Society about restoring Nicola Valley rivers after the 2021 atmospheric river floods, with the people who live there taking part in the work.
In 2021, an atmospheric river flooded communities across BC's Interior and filled rivers in the Nicola Valley with debris. First Nations in the valley, including Shackan Indian Band, Nooaitch Indian Band, Lower Nicola Indian Band, Coldwater Indian Band and Cook's Ferry Indian Band, lost a great deal, and had been left out of earlier recovery work.
Coastal Restoration Society took on a large restoration project in the valley and made sure the people who live there were part of the cleanup and shared in the economic benefits of the work.
Bringing the Fish Back tells that story. It is about clearing rivers, and also about a community getting through a traumatic climate event and seeing its fish return.
After this version was released, the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy commissioned Salmonberry Studios to make a second film on the same project.
What it did
The BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy commissioned a second film from the studio on the same restoration project.
- Made for
- Coastal Restoration Society, working with Shackan Indian Band, Nooaitch Indian Band, Lower Nicola Indian Band, Coldwater Indian Band and Cook's Ferry Indian Band
- Year
- 2022
- Where
- Nicola Valley, Southern Interior, British Columbia
- Our role
- Direction, cinematography and editing
- Running time
- 6 min
- flood recovery
- river restoration
- salmon
- atmospheric river
- First Nations
- climate adaptation
- Nicola Valley
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