Client work · 2025
Confluence
A film for the Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance and the Tŝilhqot'in National Government about their partnership monitoring water and salmon habitat, and holding that data themselves.
The Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance and the Tŝilhqot'in National Government monitor their own rivers, tracking water quality, volume and turbidity where provincial and federal monitoring has been missing or handed over. Confluence is about their partnership, and about what it means for Indigenous organizations to gather and hold their own data on their own lands.
The film follows Rebecca and Ashley, two young Indigenous women who do this work for the alliance and have helped the Tŝilhqot'in National Government build its own program. Technicians, rangers, guardians and resource managers from both organizations talk about why looking after their land, water and salmon matters to them.
The two organizations funded the film together, and it was shot over a few days. After release it reached tens of thousands of views online, much of that within Tŝilhqot'in communities, and received press coverage. The work led the Tŝilhqot'in National Government to hire Salmonberry Studios for its current production.
What it did
Tens of thousands of online views, with strong reach in Tŝilhqot'in communities. Press coverage. Led to a new contract with the Tŝilhqot'in National Government.
- Made for
- Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance and Tŝilhqot'in National Government
- Year
- 2025
- Where
- Tŝilhqot'in territory west of Williams Lake, around the five communities of the Tŝilhqot'in National Government and their water systems, British Columbia
- Our role
- Direction, production, cinematography and editing
- Running time
- 5 min
- water monitoring
- data sovereignty
- salmon habitat
- Indigenous Guardians
- First Nations
- Fraser River
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