Lily Gladstone Narrating Buffalo Conservation Doc ‘Bring Them Home,’ to Premiere at Big Sky Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Following her Oscar-nominated role in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Lily Gladstone is narrating and executive producing a new documentary titled “Bring Them Home,” about a Blackfeet initiative to bring buffalo back to the wild and reclaim centuries of Indigenous tradition.
Directed by Blackfeet brother-sister duo Ivan MacDonald and Ivy MacDonald, as well as Daniel Glick, the 85-minute feature will premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Feb.
24. The screening will take place at 6 p.m. and is sponsored by The Nature Conservatory. “Bring Them Home” follows a decades-long effort by members of the “Blackfoot Confederacy” to bring buffalo back to the Blackfeet Reservation.
The film examines the role the buffalo, or “iinnii,” played in Blackfeet life before settlers killed millions of the species in an attempt to eradicate the tribe. “For Blackfeet, the buffalo are seen not only as fundamental to a healthy ecosystem, but as spiritual relatives,” reads a press release for the documentary. “Their removal from the land meant the loss of the Blackfeet way of life, the trauma of which still reverberates today.” Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and whose family is involved in buffalo restoration work, said of the film, “‘Bring them Home’highlights a crucial story of survival; of Iinnii, our Buffalo, of Blackfoot people and our culture, and of the very land which we call home.
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