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Netflix Buys and Oscar-Qualifies ‘Yintah’ Doc About Indigenous Nation’s Fight for Sovereignty (EXCLUSIVE)

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Addie Morfoot Contributor Netflix has acquired feature documentary “Yintah” for U.S., U.K. and Canadian distribution. The acquisition comes just ahead of the film’s Camden Intl.

Film Festival premiere on Sept. 14. More than a decade in the making, “Yintah” tells the story of a Canadian-based Indigenous nation’s fight for sovereignty as it resists the construction of multiple oil and fracked-gas pipelines across its territory.

Co-directed by Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano, and Jennifer Wickham, the docu captures the Wet’suwet’en nation’s right to stewardship and sovereignty over their territories.

The film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as they resist the construction of pipelines across their territory.

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