KONELĪNE: our land the beautiful (2016) Screening and Director/Collaborators Discussion

KONELĪNE:our land beautiful 

experimental feature documentary, 92 mins (2016)

Doors open at 1:00PM, screening begins at 2:00PM

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Director Nettie Wild created Konelīne and the public art installation Uninterrupted back to back.  Together they signalled a major shift in her cinematic storytelling.

Konelīne:our land beautiful is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it.  Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, Konelīne captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change.

An art film with politics, drama, and humour, Konelīne:our land beautiful explores different ways of seeing—and being. A guide outfitter swims her horses across the vast Stikine River. The world’s biggest chopper flies 16,000-pound transmission towers over mountaintops. Konelīne’s characters delight while smashing stereotypes: white hunters carry bows and arrows; members of the Tahltan First Nation hunt out of a pickup with high-powered rifles;and a white guy sings “North to Alaska ” to his stuffed mountain sheep.

Konelīne:our land beautiful does not lecture; instead it surprises with cinematic action and visual poetry. It is a bold experimental film from one of Canada’s leading documentary artists.

Joining director Nettie Wild for the post screening discussion will be fellow collaborators producer Betsy Carson, editor Michael Brockington and composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

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“Transcendent, breathtaking spectacle….she let the camera hunt for art in every frame, mining veins of abstract beauty rather than sharp nuggets of political narrative.  She allows every image an ecumenical gaze.”

Brian D. Johnson, MACLEAN’S

“Astonishing, stunningly beautiful…. equal parts sigh, song and cry.”

 Linda Barnard, TORONTO STAR 

“Captures the danger and promise of an inspiring natural world”

 Kate Taylor, GLOBE AND MAIL

“Breathtaking… gripping… finds beauty in unexpected places.”

David Perri, THE NORTHERN MINER

“Stunning spectacle finds visual poetry…nurtures nuance”

 Susan Cole, NOW MAGAZINE

“Moral ambiguity being served by fantastic visuals… beautiful, complicated, compelling.” 

Chris Knight, NATIONAL POST

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Awards

Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs International Film Festival

Robert Brooks Award for Best Documentary Cinematography (Van Royko), Canadian Society of Cinematographers

UNESCO Dolomites Prize, Trento Film Festival (Italy)

Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Available Light Film Festival (Yukon)

Women In Film and TV Artistic Merit Award, Vancouver International Film Festival

Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Canadian Screen Awards