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While looking through the Vancouver International Film Festival program guide, I was very interested in seeing both Cry Rock and Mammalian. Ironically, I discovered they were screening together on Monday, October 11th. They both have similar themes — documentaries looking at the language, life, and culture of people in Canada’s Northern communities. Cry Rock is a documentary about the dying language of Nuxalk, which has only a handful of speakers left in the small community of Bella Coola, BC. Less than 15 Nuxalk language speakers and storytellers remain in Bella Coola, British Columbia. One of these elders is director Banchi Continue Reading »