In 2021, several communities in BC experienced both Hell and Highwater. This short film gives context to Indigenous communities struggling with trauma in all it's forms and calls out colonialism for it's ongoing challenges.
We use various technologies to track your identity and your interaction with our content while you are on our site. Our goal is to limit the use of this kind of technology to functions that are strictly necessary for the purpose of being a festival attendee, filmmaker, judge, or presenter. You have full control over the few exceptions that are not strictly necessary.
We do not use any first-party cookies on this site, though we do use a newer technology called "local storage" to store information about your identity and interaction with our site on your computer. We may use a third-party cookie for analytics tracking and another for your purchases. We do not use third-party cookies for the purposes of advertising or collecting information for use by third-parties.
The primary need for our storage of data on your computer is to track your authentication status and synchronize the purchases stored on the web site, thus enabling you to access the content to which you have access. When you are not authenticated, we also use this technology to track viewing of content in verification of our right to show you that content. On your profile page, you can see the information we store about you and manage it. You do have the right to be forgotten by us, but you will lose access to any purchased content should you exercise this right.
There are two non-essential functions: our use of Google Analytics to help us analyize usage of our web site and our automated watch list tracking. You may turn off one or both non-essential functions. We do ask that you allow these functions as they are used solely for the purposes of bettering this web site and are not used for advertising or sold tracking your beavhior for use by third-parties.
Click "Accept" to accept this use of cookies or "Reject" reject all but essential cookies.
This content is available only for on-demand access.
This screening session showcases our 2023 Best Feature Film, "Flyways" by Australian filmmaker Randall Wood and our 2023 Best Short/Mid-Length Film, "Hell and Highwater" by Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Williams.
Come and enjoy this year's best and see for yourself why these are our 2023 award-winning films.
Check out our Best Feature Film and our Best Short/Mid-Length Film and discover for yourself why these are our 2023 award-winning films.
Haven't got a lot of time? Check out these mid-length films with a message that will move you.
No on-demand viewing option is currently available for you.
