The short film from the Lummi partnership with The Natural History Museum for the exhibition “Whale People: Protectors of the Sea” has won an award in three categories at the Best Shorts Competition and the film is also an official selection at the Cannes International Film Festival, American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Toronto Short Film Festival, and Dreamspeakers International Film Festival. Thank you so much to our friends Beka and Jason at the Museum for their work in making this second collaboration come to fruition. They extend their hearts and thoughts out to Lummi and shared “We are so honored to play a role in bringing Lummi Nation’s message of reciprocity and kinship relations to the killer whales and the broader Salish Sea to an international audience. Chief Bill James and Jewell James and Amy George of Tsleil-Waututh Nation are powerful messengers to remind us all that what we do to the waters, we do to ourselves. They tell us of our sacred obligation to generations past, present and future. In the face of the existential crisis that climate change, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss pose to the future of life on this planet, their words could not be more timely or urgent.”
Film was part of the 2018-2019 Museum of Natural History Totem Pole Journey. Will get info out on exhibition tour.
Hello,
I hope you’re well. I am curious if any of the festivals showing this film are still going on, and if not, is it possible to rent a copy of the film elsewhere?
Thanks!
Raichle
Checking in with the Museum folks running the exhibit. Will post an answer when I hear back from them.