The Just Film Festival is proud to host the Canadian première of this important film here at The Rio Theatre.

Join us early for mingling and entertainment by the Solidarity Notes Labour Choir | 

Doors at 6:00 pm/ Movie 7pm

Tickets are $10 for the evening at the door or free with a festival pass.  festival passes can be purchased in advance at http://justfilm.ca/tickets/

There are essential voices that have been excluded from the debate over Canada’s largest and most controversial industrial development: those of the indigenous communities who live downstream from the Alberta oil sands. One River, Many Relations is their story. The people of the Peace-Athabasca Delta share their history and the changes brought by the oil sands industry, hydro projects, the changing climate and the loss of traditional livelihood.

Working in close collaboration with the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Dene people of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, filmmakers Stephane McLaughlin and Michael Tyas focus on changes in the health of the wildlife and the environment along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers, and the impact these changes have had on the people.

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About the Film:

One River Many Relations is a documentary that explores the Athabasca Oil Sands from an marginalized and often silenced perspective: Communities that live downstream. Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, is well known as a community that is fighting against the pollution from resource extraction which they claim is causing cancers and degrading their traditional territories. Despite the many documentaries that have been produced about the Oil Sands, Fort Chip has been just a small voice amidst the cries of celebrities, scientists and politicians. This documentary is a collaborative, community effort of 33 interviews with local Cree, Dene and Metis members from Fort Chipewyan. It gets to the heart of their concerns for their families, traditional ways and territories as the Oil Sands encroach closer and closer. Produced in partnership with Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Co-Directed by Michael Tyas and Stéphane McLachlan from the Environmental Conservation Lab, University of Manitoba.