After more than a decade in the making, the documentary film Yintah, the Wet’suwet’en word meaning land, is making the rounds at film festivals all over the world.

Just in the past month it has aired on CBC’s Gem, as well as Netflix, in the UK, the US and Canada, qualifying it for a potential Oscar Nomination.

Yintah follows Wet’suwet’en member, Freda Huson of the Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en clan Spokesperson, Molly Wickham also known as Slaydo, as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth as they constructed the multi-billion-dollar Coastal Gas Link pipeline to feed Shell Canada’s LNG Canada export facility in Kitimat, B.C.

Jennifer Wickham is a Wet’suwet’en member of the Gitemden clan, an educator, co-director and producer of this award-winning documentary and today we get to speak with her about how the film has been received by Canadian, international and local audiences and what comes next in the fight to protect the Wet’suwet’en Yintah.