GATHER

By Sanjay RAWAL

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Documentary - Completed 2020

Gather is an intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to
reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their
ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by
centuries of genocide.

Festivals
& Awards

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sanjay RAWAL
    • Producer(s)
    • Tanya MEILLIER, Sterlin HARJO
    • Synopsis
    • Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to re
      connect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.
      A indigenous chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the
      Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a
      buffalo ranch, is proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a
      group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their
      culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon.
      All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways
      is a way forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people.