Amplifier Films

08/20/2025

Big News! 🎉

We’re honored to share that A Red Road to the West Bank has been awarded a 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and

This support will help us continue developing our documentary, which connects the struggles of Indigenous peoples in North America and Palestine against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.

Co-directed by Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, a Kanien’kehá:ka activist and filmmaker, and Franklin López, Puerto Rican filmmaker and founder of subMedia, this project is both a film and an organizing tool — a resource for solidarity, resistance, and education.

We are also deeply honored to share this recognition alongside so many incredible projects, including Mainline’s The Process is the Punishment podcast on the ATL 61 RICO trials, The Dugout, a Black anarchist podcast reshaping radical history, and All Damn Night, a documentary chronicling resistance to Florida’s abortion ban.

After many grant rejections, it feels powerful to know we can always count on anarchists to have our backs. Our first official grant comes from two incredible anarchist organizations — and that means a lot.

That said, we are still in great need of funding to finish this important project. If you’d like to support us directly, you can donate here: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

We’re grateful to the IAS and Agency for recognizing the urgency of this work, and to all of you who have stood with us on this journey so far.

08/16/2025

ENGLISH BELOW
La photo en bas date de la crise d’Oka en 1990. Celle en haut à droite ? La semaine passée. Même colonialisme de m***e, autre décennie.

Un bûcheron enragé face au défenseur atikamekw du territoire Danakona Dave Pitikwi — preuve que le colonialisme n’est pas un chapitre de livre d’histoire, mais bien vivant dans le soi-disant Canada.

Cette semaine, on a vu un torrent de racisme déversé contre des personnes qui font simplement ce qu’il faut : protéger leur territoire. Choquant, mais pas surprenant. Parce que 35 ans après Oka, la résistance autochtone rencontre toujours le même mépris.

Mais voilà : tout comme le colonialisme se reproduit, la résistance aussi. Les Atikamekw brandissent encore cette année le drapeau warrior — rappel vivant que la lutte n’a jamais cessé, et ne cessera jamais.

Solidarité avec les défenseurs. La terre est à eux. Elle l’a toujours été. Elle le sera toujours.

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English

The photo at the bottom is from the Oka Crisis, 1990. The one at the top right? Last week. Same colonial bu****it, different decade.

An angry logger squaring up to Atikamekw land defender Danakona Dave Pitikwi — proof that colonialism isn’t some history book chapter, it’s alive and kicking in so-called Canada.

This week, we’ve seen a flood of racist garbage hurled at people who are simply protecting their own territory. Shocking, but not surprising. Because 35 years after Oka, Indigenous resistance is still met with the same contempt.

But here’s the thing: just as colonialism reproduces itself, so does resistance. The Atikamekw are flying the warrior flag again this year — a living reminder that the fight hasn’t stopped, and it won’t stop.

Solidarity with the defenders. The land is theirs. Always was. Always will be.

08/11/2025

📽 Film Screening + Q&A – A Red Road to the West Bank (Rough Cuts) 🎬

Tomorrow night! Join us — Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas and Franklin López — at the Black Oak Anarchist Social Center in Hamilton for a special screening of rough cut footage from our upcoming documentary A Red Road to the West Bank.

This film connects Indigenous struggles in Turtle Island and Palestine, showing that colonization is not history — it’s an ongoing system that must be dismantled.

📅 Tuesday, August 12th
🕗 8:00 p.m.
📍 Black Oak Anarchist Social Center, Hamilton
🔗https://blackoak.noblogs.org/
💰 Pass the Hat / Pay What You Can – All funds go toward finishing the film.
🧣 Keffiyehs for sale – Proceeds help raise funds for the project.

Come watch, ask questions, pick up a keffiyeh, and help bring this story to life.

08/07/2025

📣 Good news for our U.S.-based supporters: Amplifier Films now has a fiscal sponsor. If you're able to make a large, tax-deductible donation, you can now do so through our U.S. sponsor.

Your support will directly help us complete Defenders of the Forest, A Red Road to the West Bank, and continue our work on urgent, frontline documentary projects amplifying land defense and resistance movements.

👉 For details, contact us through our contact page: https://amplifierfilms.ca/contact

08/01/2025

Nous appelons les allié·es à venir prêter main forte sur le s… Nishkat iînu needs your support for Appel à la solidarité avec les gardiens du territoire ilnus

07/26/2025

07/25/2025

New blog post is up: Defenders of the Forest — a film five years in the making about Indigenous resistance to colonial logging in so-called Quebec. From frontline blockades to cross-continental solidarity, this project is rooted in collaboration and urgency.

We’re in the final stretch and need your support to finish post-production. Read more and subscribe to our newsletter here:

🔗 https://amplifierfilms.ca/defenders-of-the-forest-indigenous-land-defense-in-so-called-quebec

From frontline blockades in Nehirowisiw and Innu territories to cross-continental dialogues between Indigenous and Palestinian resistance, Defenders of the Forest is a new documentary five years in the making. Shot in collaboration with land defenders resisting Quebec’s destructive forestry regime...