Netflix has acquired the Indigenous documentary feature Yintah, and has planned a streaming release for the film as well as a limited theatrical rollout in the U.S. and U.K. this fall.

Spanning more than a decade, Yintah chronicles the Wet’suwet’en nation’s fight for sovereignty, following chiefs Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from fossil fuel companies.

The film premiered at True/False in February, and won the Rogers Audience Award and Hot Docs Audience Award when it screened at the Hot Docs Festival. The film also screened at Sheffield DocFest, DOXA in Vancouver and the International First Peoples’ Festival in Montreal.

Yintah will make its streaming debut on Netflix in the U.S. and the U.K. on Oct. 18, , following its screening at the Camden Film Festival this weekend. The film will have its Canadian broadcast and streaming debut on Sept. 18 on CBC and the CBC Gem streaming service as the season opener of the Canadian pubcaster’s doc strand The Passionate Eye.

The doc is produced by Yintah Film in association with CBC. The directors are Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham and Brenda Michell, with all three also serving as producers along with Bob Moore. The executive producers are Sam Vinal, Doris Rosso, Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen

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