This year, the migration of Adams River Sockeye will take a detour, a magical stop in Vancouver.
It was seven years ago, 2010, when internationally acclaimed documentary film director Nettie Wild witnessed a spectacle that, as she puts it, changed her life.
Wild, from Vancouver, was one of the more than 160,000 people who made their way to the Shuswap to stand on the banks of the Adams River that year. There, she witnessed the incredible run of close to four million sockeye salmon who had journeyed more than 600 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean to spawn.
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Wild and her Canada Wild Productions, with producer Betsy Carson, have produced several internationally acclaimed films, but none like this.
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Along with the Adams River, over seven years she also filmed on the Sproat and Pitt rivers. Several First Nations were behind the project, including Little Shuswap and Neskonlith. The staff at Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park and the Adams River Salmon Society were also a huge help, she says, explaining that an 香蕉视频直播渋ncredible army of people香蕉视频直播� have made the project possible.
The Thomas family allowed the voice of late Neskonlith elder Mary Thomas to be used in the 25-minute film. Although there is no narration, says Wild, the film 香蕉视频直播渦ses her voice as the spirit of the river, telling the story of the salmon in her language.香蕉视频直播�
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A short animated teaser runs beforehand.
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Her hope for the cinematic spectacle is that it imbues the kind of wonder that the sockeye run itself does.
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Why the name, Uninterrupted?
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