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Celebrating 33 New Local Documentaries

Posted on January 15, 2025
Photo Credit: Through The Shadowlands, Project Lead: Anastasia Hirst
Photo Credit: Through The Shadowlands, Project Lead: Anastasia Hirst
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The projects produced in the TELUS STORYHIVE All Access Documentary Edition are now available to watch. 

Celebrate the premiere of 33 new documentaries! These films, produced by new and emerging filmmakers from B.C. and Alberta, showcase powerful local stories about community leaders, health and wellness, groundbreaking technology, the environment, agriculture and much more.

Each Project Lead was provided $20,000 in production funding, training and professional mentorship (through National Screen Institute) to produce a documentary that is reflective of their local community. 

Catch these incredible stories now on TELUS Optik TV channel 9, Stream+ and STORYHIVE’s YouTube channel. Start watching today! 

Project Spotlights

African Rifles

African Rifles | Victoria, British Columbia | Project Lead: Mia Golden

B.C.'s first official militia was formed solely with Black pioneers. By exploring archives, cemeteries, interviewing historians and ancestors we uncover a past rich with diversity, benevolence, but also, bigotry.

Watch now on TELUS Optik TV channel 9 and Stream+. Stay tuned for the release on YouTube. 

Ground Down | Calgary, Alberta | Project Lead: Josh Sandulak

After a near-fatal accident leaves local musician and artist Abbie Thurgood with body and vocal cord paralysis, she faces impossible odds and discovers the healing power of community.

Lifers: A Century of Addiction to Amateur Theatre | Lethbridge, Alberta | Project Lead: Allen Gibson

1923: A scion of British music royalty creates an amateur theatre company in a windswept Canadian prairie town. What gets, and keeps, people 'hooked' for a century?

People Like Us | Revelstoke, British Columbia | Project Lead: Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins explores the implications of being a gay man in Revelstoke, B.C., highlighting the reality of queer life in mountain towns through the Open Mountains Project, athletes and other Revelstoke locals.

Through The Shadowlands | Nanaimo, British Columbia | Project Lead: Anastasia Hirst

A group of people who have lost loved ones to suicide embark on a healing journey through equine therapy, ritual and community, guided by experts in grief work.

Please join us in congratulating all of these filmmakers on social media! We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and the YouTube Community Tab.