Downstream Pictures

08/04/2025

✨We are excited to announce that Singing Back the Buffalo is included in this year’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Tour Program✨

Bookings for the 2025 Tour Program will be made available through the imagineNative website from August 1, 2025 - November 28, 2025.

⚡️The tour is imagineNATIVE’s largest initiative outside of the annual Film + Media Festival and allows Singing Back the Buffalo to be screened in-person or online through their VOD platform⚡️

These programs have been specially curated with schools, friendship centres, workplaces, youth programs (& more!) in mind and can be accessed across so-called Canada! ❤️

For more information click here: https://imaginenative.org/year-round/tour/

05/29/2025

Singing Back the Buffalo returns to Toronto as part of the 25th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival — the world's largest presenter of Indigenous screen content. The film screens in person on June 5, 7:00PM at TIFF Lightbox, and will be available to stream online for a limited window starting June 9. Get your tickets here
🎟️ 🔥 bit.ly/3SrdDJi

05/16/2025

03/05/2025

🦬 Buffalo Treaty in Action 🦬

On January 31, Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, one of the original signatories of the Buffalo Treaty, gifted Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head-Lean Man First Nation (MGBHLM) in Saskatchewan, 11 Buffalo from the Yellowstone National Park herd.

The 11 Buffalo were transferred from Yellowstone to Fort Peck last year, where they spent over a year in quarantine due to the American and Canadian government’s requirements.

Fort Peck gifting these 11 Buffalo to MGBHLM First Nation is historic since this is the first time Buffalo from the Yellowstone herd have crossed the border into ‘Canada.’ It remains a beautiful example of the Buffalo Treaty in action, demonstrating nation-nation solidarity and collaboration for the purpose of Buffalo rematriation.

Jonny Bearcub-Stiffarm, part of the Pte Group in Fort Peck, stated that with the sharing of Buffalo “communities can revitalize ceremonies, bring back old stories and songs, and importantly, they can create new stories and songs”

Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head-Lean Man First Nation Chief Tanya Stone also stated that, “from the planning to seeing them on the road and crossing the border was a dream come true for many people, it was a vision and it became a reality.”

Read more: “Nation to Nation collaboration sees Yellowstone bison come to Canada for the 1st time” CBC Article by Louise BigEagle

Photo Taken by: Shahean Moosomin

12/05/2024

Singing Back the Buffalo continues theatrical screenings in BC! We are so excited to bring the film to Dawson Creek in BC as of December 10th. Don’t miss your chance to watch this incredible film on the big screen!

11/07/2024

Join us for at the Gorge Impact Film Festival!

📅 Date: Saturday, November 9th 2024
⏰ Time: 2:30pm PST
📍 Location: The Ruins, 13 Railroad Street, Hood River, Oregon

🎟️ https://giff-pnw.eventive.org/films/singing-back-the-buffalo-66df925560fa47007f3f93e9

11/07/2024

Hey New York!

If you’d like to take in our film Nov 15th at the Urbanworld festival, you can get a 20% discount using this code:

UWFF24FF at checkout

https://urbanworld.org/

10/31/2024

🎬 Catch at the Windsor International Film Festival!

📅 Date: November 3, 2024
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – Start your day with inspiration!
📍 Location: Armouries - Perform. Hall, 37 University Ave. E., Windsor, Ontario

Get ready for a powerful story that connects culture, resilience, and community. Don't miss out on this incredible journey! 🌍💫

Get your tickets now and spread the word about this marvelous film 🙌✨

09/13/2024

🎬 Get Ready, Calgary! 🎬
We're beyond excited to present "Singing Back the Buffalo" at the 25th anniversary of the Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF

With two opportunities to catch this powerful film:

🗓️ Screening 1:
📅 September 21st, 2024
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 The Plaza Theatre | 1133 Kensington Rd NW, Calgary, AB
✨ Filmmakers and special guests will be in attendance!

🗓️ Screening 2:
📅 September 29th, 2024
⏰ 5:00 PM
📍 Scotiabank Theatre Chinook 14 | 6455 Macleod Trail SW, Calgary, AB

🎟️ Celebrate CIFF’s 25th Year! Don’t miss your chance—secure your tickets now and be part of this incredible event!