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Jessica Hallenbeck
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Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer

https://www.lanternfilms.ca
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I'll be in Vancouver all week reporting on this landmark case for #pressfreedom in Canada.

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February 3, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN

📍Yukon Premiere
📅 Thu, Feb 12
🍿Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse YT

📣 Special guests @lanternfilms.bsky.social & Jasmine Thomas (Saik'uz Nation) in attendance for a Q&A.
January 27, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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jackiedives.bsky.social
Dulf’s constitutional challenge continues tomorrow (Jan 21) at 9am. Fairly certain Dan Werb will be testifying.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee
The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.
thetyee.ca
January 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by Jessica Hallenbeck
jackiedives.bsky.social
Dulf’s constitutional challenge continues today until 4pm.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee
The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.
thetyee.ca
January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Nechako is a powerful film that follows two Indigenous Nations, the Stellat’en and Saik’uz, as they fight to restore the Nechako River and the way of life it has sustained for generations.

Director Lyana Patrick joined us for DWF LIVE to share her experiences and insights.
https://ow.ly/LAbh50XX0OT
January 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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B-Side, Track 6: We Have Stories — with Rosemary Georgeson and Jessica Hallenbeck
On this episode of the Below the Radar B-Sides, we’re joined by Rosemary Georgeson and Jessica Hallenbeck, two artists whose ongoing community engaged collaborative work have produced multiple acclaim...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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A new book! Excited to keep such company, contributing to this cutting-edge collection on community engagement. Deep appreciation to the editors, Stuart Poyntz, Am Johal, and Kari Grain.

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Critical Futures - University of Toronto Press
Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation
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November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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katjadebock.bsky.social
🧡 The @cfnr.bsky.social show Good Medicine, hosted by @ashleypimlott.bsky.social, invited Lyana Patrick to discuss her feature doc NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, which is now streaming on nfb.ca and the NFB app.
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Good Medicine E98 - Lyana Patrick | Nechako
In this episode of Good Medicine, we speak with Stellat’en First Nation filmmaker Lyana Patrick about her feature documentary Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again, now streaming across Canada through
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December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Now streaming from the NFB, NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN observes as members from the Stellat’en and Saik’uz First Nations as they join forces to protect the river that's long sustained their communities. povmagazine.com/now-streamin...
Now Streaming: Nechako Imparts Generational Wisdom in a Fight for the Future - POV Magazine
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again observes as First Nations communities join forces to preserve the environment for generations to come.
povmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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katjadebock.bsky.social
👀 Watch the doc NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN on NFB.ca today. Then, join a live online discussion hosted by @downiewenjack.bsky.social tomorrow. 💜
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November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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katjadebock.bsky.social
💙 Lyana Patrick spoke with the University of Alberta's official student newspaper, The Gateway, about her documentary NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, which is now streaming on nfb.ca.
thegatewayonline.ca/2025/11/nech...
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Nechako documentary follows first of its kind lawsuit - The Gateway
Documentary by Lyana Patrick shows first of it's kind lawsuit in effort of Indigenous communities to regain stewardship of the Nechako river.
thegatewayonline.ca
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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katjadebock.bsky.social
📣 New review up for Lyana Patrick's documentary NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, now streaming on nfb.ca + the NFB app.
Story by @themartlet.bsky.social (Victoria, BC).
W. @lanternfilms.bsky.social
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UVic alumna’s film ‘Nechako’ is breaking documentarian barriers
'Nechako' is an example of Indigenous people telling their own stories. The Saik’uz and Stellat’en Nations want their river back.
martlet.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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katjadebock.bsky.social
📽️ One more screening at @viffest.bsky.social Centre on June 21:

Nechako: A story of loss, community and recovery via @ubyssey.ca ssey.ca :
ubyssey.ca/culture/nech...
Nechako: A Story of Loss, Community and Recovery
The film follows various individuals forced to balance the challenges of everyday life with their responsibility to seek The documentary is a personal account of the impact that the construction of th...
ubyssey.ca
June 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Jessica Hallenbeck
theintercept.com
From militarized crackdowns to legal impunity, Trump’s policing agenda is designed to crush dissent and critics.
A Trumped Up Police State Is Coming
From militarized crackdowns to legal impunity, Trump’s policing agenda is designed to crush dissent and critics, explains Radley Balko.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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“We’re really getting to the point where law enforcement officers have almost no accountability at all,” says @radleybalko.bsky.social on this week's The Intercept Briefing, in conversation with @akelalacy.bsky.social and @jesswash.bsky.social.
May 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Zionist entity needs to release the 12 hostages it is holding aboard the Madleen.

And release the 10,000+ Palestinians it is holding hostage in zionist prisons.
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
lanternfilms.bsky.social
Come celebrate The Water We Call Home on June 14th, 2025, with curator Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish & Sahtu Dene), filmmaker Jessica Hallenbeck, and the women of the Galiano Island gathering
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The Water We Call Home 2nd Anniversary Celebration – A National Indigenous Peoples Day Event at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery - FREE - Gulf of Georgia
Enjoy free admision to the Cannery and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day 2025 and the 2nd anniversary of The Water We Call Home
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June 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
lanternfilms.bsky.social
filmmaker Aurora Brachman’s short, When The Revolution Doesn't Come, has just been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick! The film explores the history and present day legacy of the Black Panther Party through the eyes of the children who grew up within the movement. vimeo.com/1075981556?f...
The Black Panther Cubs: when the revolution doesn't come
They are the children of the Black Panther party – the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination,…
vimeo.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
lanternfilms.bsky.social
Congrats to my friend Johnny Mack for yer new job. irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/06/05/p...
Professor Johnny Mack appointed as Academic Director at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre  - Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Professor Johnny Mack has been appointed Academic Director at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), effective May 1, 2025, for a three-year term. Situated at the intersec...
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June 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Julian Carrington named executive director of Documentary Organization of Canada ( @docorg.bsky.social) povmagazine.com/julian-carri...
Julian Carrington Appointed Executive Director of DOC - POV Magazine
Julian Carrington named executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). He begins the role with the advocacy group on June 9.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
lanternfilms.bsky.social
Ahead of the premiere at Sydney Film Festival and a theatrical run at @viffest.bsky.social Nechako trailer is out! youtu.be/YfN7h9BKciA
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again | OFFICIAL TRAILER
YouTube video by NFB
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June 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
lanternfilms.bsky.social
Hey Australia!

Nechako - It Will Be a Big River Again will be having it's international premiere at this years Sydney Film Festival during these following dates & times:

Saturday June 7, 2025 at 2pm
Wednesday June 11, 2025 at 6pm

Tickets in the link below!

www.sff.org.au/program/even...
Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again – Sydney Film Festival
Memory and resistance flow through this meditative, visually striking doc chronicling Indigenous peoples’ 70-year struggle to restore Canada’s Nechako River and
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June 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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📣 Vancouver, BC:

NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN opens June 6 at the VIFF Centre!

W/ @lyanap.bsky.social @lanternfilms.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social
thetyee.ca The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Jun 2
“I really wanted to show the people living, being, doing things on the lands, on the waters, and allow the viewer to have a strong sense that we continue to use and occupy our lands.”

#TyeePresents #Sponsored
A Historic Fight for One River and Our Collective Future | The Tyee
New documentary captures two First Nations’ legal fight to protect an essential waterway.
thetyee.ca
June 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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On a new 👁‍🗨 @redeyeradio.bsky.social👁‍🗨 Stellat’en First Nation 'NECHAKO' director Lyana Patrick talks about how her new film documents years of resistance by two Nations, including a groundbreaking legal proceeding against the Canadian government + Rio Tinto Alcan

www.listennotes.com/podcasts/red...
May 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Jessica Hallenbeck
zoestodd.bsky.social
The premiere of Dr Lyana Patrick @lyanap.bsky.social ’s stunning and beautiful film “Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again” tonight was so moving. I’m urging you to go see the next screening on May 9th at the @sfu.ca Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema.
sierraclubbc.bsky.social Sierra Club BC @sierraclubbc.bsky.social · Apr 24
Join us for two DOXA Film Festival screenings on Friday, May 9th at the SFU Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema in Vancouver.

5PM - Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again
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7:15PM – UNEARTH
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May 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM