The 47-minute film tells the story of how the young people of Old Crow conceived and brought into being the largest solar power installation in Canada’s north.
Film directors Erika Tizya-Tramm and Daniel Jenke take questions following the global premiere of Old Crow a Philosophy at the Yukon Arts Centre last night as part of the Available Light Film Festival (ALFF). (CHON was the proud sponsor of this screening.)
The 47-minute film tells the story of how the young people of Old Crow conceived and brought into being the largest solar power installation in Canada’s north.
The film focused on two 30-something Vuntut Gwitchin philosophers, Brandon Kyikavichik, considered the only fluent Gwich’in speaker of his generation, and former Vuntut Gwichin First Nation Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, who began the solar project in 2016, four years before becoming chief.
The Art Centre was filled with Vuntut Gwitchin citizens for the screening, which had debuted in Old Crow a few weeks earlier

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