The Klabona Keepers

The Klabona Keepers
Directed byTamo Campos
Jasper Snow-Rosen
Written byBertha Louie
Rita Louie
Rhoda Quock
Mary Quock
Tamo Campos
Jasper Snow-Rosen
Produced byRhoda Quock
CinematographyTamo Campos
Jasper Snow-Rosen
Edited byTamo Campos
Jasper Snow-Rosen
Production
company
Beyond Boarding
Release date
Running time
69 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Klabona Keepers is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tamo Campos and Jasper Snow-Rosen and released in 2022.[1] The film is a profile of the Tahltan First Nation's successful activist campaign against industrial development that would have impacted the Sacred Headwaters, or Klabona, in northern British Columbia.[1]

The film premiered on May 26, 2022 at the Toronto edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.[2] At the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival, it was named the winner of the Audience Award for the Insights program.[3]

  1. ^ a b Hannah Schmidt, "Documentary filmed in Northwest B.C. to be screened at Toronto film fest". CFTK-TV, May 17, 2022.
  2. ^ Adam Laskaris, "Indigenous land rights film to debut at Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival". Toronto Star, May 9, 2022.
  3. ^ Angelica Babiera, "VIFF announces nine audience award winners". Playback, October 19, 2022.