RISE: Standing Rock
2017
RISE is both eye-opening education and a rallying cry, inspiring audiences to get involved and truly appreciate the 500-plus year legacy of Native resilience - a confrontation of the deep wounds of colonization and the consequences of reckless greed at the expense of indigenous people and the planet itself. The result is an essential documentation of one of the most urgent environmental and civil rights struggles happening today.
"RISE is unabashedly on the side of the protesters it embeds with."
Mike Hale, NY Times
"Latimer's storytelling is pure, real and raw. It inspires, uplifts and evokes real emotion."
Vincent Schilling, Indian Country Today
"If ever there was a story of a struggle "to be continued," this is it."
David Leitner, Filmmaker Magazine
AWARDS
World Premiere: Sundance International Film Festival 2017 - Special Event CLIMATE Program
Winner: Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program 2017
Winner: Reel Screen Diversity Award 2017
Winner: Maori Land Audience Choice Award 2017
Winner: San Francisco Green Festival Best Feature Award 2017
Nominated: Cinema Politica Audience Choice Award 2017
Special Event Screening: Toronto International Film Festival Lightbox 2017
CREDITS
Written and Directed by: Michelle Latimer
Showrunner: Michelle Latimer
Executive Producers (Production Company): Heather Rae; Jordan Roberts; Tania Natscheff; Bernardo Loyola; Patrick McGuire
Executive Producers (Network): Spike Jonze; Eddy Moretti; Shane Smith; Michael Kronish
IN THE NEWS
NY Times - Viceland's 'RISE' Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Filmmaker Magazine - We're All to Blame if We Don't Do Anything": Director Michelle Latimer - RISE
Filmmaker Magazine - Sundance Notes: RISE to RUMBLE, must-see TV - from Canada
Women In Hollywood - Sundance 2017 Women Directors: Meet Michelle Latimer - "RISE"