Boreal Wolf Film Productions and Winter Hawk Studios are pleased to announce that the documentary feature film ‘Tea Creek’ from director Ryan Dickie (In the Land of Dreamers) will be available to audiences across Canada from October 11th, 2024. It was also announced that the film has been selected for the 25th anniversary of Planet in Focus Film Festival (PiF) in Toronto in October, which will be the film’s Ontario debut. PiF is a festival that celebrates film as a catalyst for public awareness, discussion, and engagement on various environmental issues and is the perfect fit for the film.
Filmed at Tea Creek Farm in Kitwanga, BC, the documentary feature film is set against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis. In three short years, Indigenous Food Sovereignty Activist Jacob Beaton transformed his family farm into Tea Creek; an Indigenous Food Sovereignty training center with a mission to revive the abundance that once defined Turtle Island. Following Tea Creek through the growing season, the film explores the rich history of Indigenous agriculture, and the ongoing impacts of colonization and intimately portrays a passionate leader whose vision for change is creating space for healing and abundance.
“Growing up in a small community in the north, I have a deep understanding of the fragility of our food networks, and how our traditional food systems as Indigenous people have been reshaped over time,” says the documentary’s writer/director Ryan Dickie. “There is a sense of urgency for Indigenous people and within our communities to find solutions which will help our people achieve food sovereignty today, and for our future generations. The work that is being done at Tea Creek farm is not only a template for what can be done, but is also saving lives.”
The film world premiered in Vancouver with two sold out screenings at DOXA in May and has upcoming community screenings in Hazelton and Terrace, BC and it was just announced today that Tea Creek will screen as a part of the 2024 lineup at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto and it will also play for audiences at the Windsor International Film Festival and another festival in Saskatchewan to be announced.
Images provided courtesy of Nicola Pender
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