FISH WAR is coming to film festivals in western Washington and Vancouver, B.C., in September and October.
This documentary film, produced by Northwest Treaty Tribes Media and North Forty Productions, had its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) in May.
You can find more information about the upcoming film festivals and purchase tickets at the links below.
Port Townsend Film Festival
8 pm Thursday, Sept. 19 – With Q&A, in the Rose Theater.
8 pm Thursday, Sept. 19 – in the Starlight Room.
1 pm Sunday, Sept. 22
Streaming Sept. 23-Sept. 29
Gig Harbor Film Festival
6:15 pm Friday, Sept. 27
4:05 pm Saturday, Sept. 28
Vancouver International Film Festival
6 pm Wednesday, Oct. 2
1 pm Friday, Oct. 4
Dungeness River Nature Center Film Series, Sequim
6 pm Thursday, Oct. 10
Tacoma Film Festival
7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 11
5:10 pm Monday, Oct. 14
5:15 pm Thursday, Oct. 17
Indigenous Peoples Day Documentary Night, Indigenous Roots & Reparation Foundation
FREE Event at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
5 pm Monday, Oct, 14
Doctober at the Pickford Film Center, Bellingham
5:35 pm Saturday, Oct. 19
7:45 pm Monday, Oct. 21
2:55 pm Tuesday, Oct. 29
Friday Harbor Film Festival
1 pm Saturday, Oct. 26
10 am Sunday, Oct. 27
FISH WAR highlights the violent struggle faced by Indigenous nations to exercise their treaty-protected right to harvest salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
The protests led to a federal court case, U.S. v. Washington, that changed the way the state and treaty tribes care for the environment. The Boldt decision in this case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
It should have put an end to the Fish Wars.
Fifty years later, however, tribal treaty rights face adversaries including habitat destruction and climate change, which threaten to destroy salmon runs forever.
“The Fish War isn’t over,” says Nisqually Chairman Willie Frank III in the film. “Instead of fighting over fish, we are fighting for the fish—to keep them on this planet.”
