Top Five Audience Favourite, 2025 Hot Docs Festival
Winner, Best Canadian Feature Documentary, 2025 Calgary International Film Festival
The Skidegate Saints are perennial favourites to win the highly competitive All Native Basketball Tournament, an event players have called modern-day warfare. For over 60 years, this tournament in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, has been a multi-generational gathering place for First Nations from Haida Gwaii to celebrate their culture and community. The Saints have become leaders on and off the court, as they coach younger players and take on responsibilities within their clans. Basketball has provided the team’s members with many tools to succeed and this tournament is about more than just the game. It’s become a symbol of resilience emerging from residential school survivors and provides an opportunity to participate in Ceremony, after the Indian Act banned Potlatches until 1951. While the aging Saints take to the court to defend their title, an emerging contender of younger all-stars from the lower mainland is hungry to challenge the village champions. - Alexander Rogalski
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