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Netflix Buys and Oscar-Qualifies ‘Yintah’ Doc About Indigenous Nation’s Fight for Sovereignty (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix has acquired the documentary 'Yintah,' about an Indigenous nation’s fight for sovereignty,
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. “Mirroring the scope and ambition of the Wet’suwet’en fight to protect unsurrendered lands from theft, “Yintah” offers the definitive account of a historic wave of Indigenous resistance to Canadian colonialism,” said the directors in a joint statement. “Drawing from more than a decade of verité footage, the film shadows two Wet’suwet’en leaders (Freda Huson and Molly Wickham) as they reoccupy and protect their homelands in the face of state violence.”
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