The Fire in Our Hearts

The Fire in Our Hearts

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"A community’s fight for land, truth, and autonomy."

Overview

On British Columbia’s remote Southside, wildfire is not an abstract threat—it is a lived reality. As flames close in on a frontier community, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and their neighbours face an impossible choice: evacuate, or stay to protect the land that defines them. With limited access and little outside support, the community responds collectively, drawing on Indigenous leadership, cooperation, and generations of knowledge to confront the fire in near isolation. In the aftermath, the burn reveals a long-erased Cheslatta village site, resurfacing a suppressed history just as their response gains wider attention as a model for resilience. But when the flames recede, new constraints emerge—raising questions about the limits of community-led action, and the fragile balance between survival, autonomy, and authority.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Counting Ants Productions
Production Countries
Canada

Keywords

climate change environmental landgrabbing wildfire environmental catastrophe mass evacuation indigenous rights mutual aid cheslatta carrier nation cultural erasure

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Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt37994754
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Cast

Stewart Alcock
Stewart Alcock

himself

Cole Bender
Cole Bender

himself

Brad Blackwel
Brad Blackwel

himself

Gary Blackwell
Gary Blackwell

himself

Joanne Brown
Joanne Brown

herself

Hazel Burt
Hazel Burt

herself

John Casimet
John Casimet

himself

Ryan Chapman
Ryan Chapman

himself

Walt Cravey
Walt Cravey

himself

David Eby
David Eby

himself

Monika Eriksen
Monika Eriksen

herself

Jessica Gessel
Jessica Gessel

herself

Key Crew

Josias Tschanz
Director
Guido Baechler
Executive Producer
Marcel Baechler
Executive Producer
Angelika Posselt
Executive Producer
Klaus Posselt
Executive Producer
Josias Tschanz
Producer
Josias Tschanz
Writer