{"id":903571,"date":"2026-11-02T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903571\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:54:09","slug":"netflix-acquires-indigenous-documentary-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903571\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Acquires Indigenous Documentary &#8216;Ceremony&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_1\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> has nabbed the Indigenous feature documentary Ceremony after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sxsw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sxsw_1\" data-tag=\"sxsw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW<\/a> world premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDirector Bianchi Hanuse\u2019s film will land on the streamer in 2027 after winning awards at SXSW, Hot Docs and the Sydney Film Festival. Ceremony centers on British Columbia\u2019s Nuxalk Nation as it looks to restore the local population of ooligan fish, whose arrival every spring sustains the First Nations community and its ritual celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe restoration efforts, including broadcasts from the Nuxalk Radio station, also underline the resilience of the Indigenous community in the face of challenges from climate change and colonialization. \u201cNuxalkmc [Nuxalk people] asked for this story to be told and that responsibility took 12 years because our truth isn\u2019t an easy one to tell. It\u2019s a story most Canadians have never heard. We made it for us and with Netflix, we\u2019re sharing it beyond our valley,\u201d director Hanuse said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/canada\/\" id=\"auto-tag_canada_1\" data-tag=\"canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>, Netflix has acquired earlier Indigenous-themed or directed content, including the late Jeff Barnaby\u2019s Rhymes for Ghouls, Stephen S. Campanelli\u2019s Indian Horse and Miranda de Pencier\u2019s The Grizzlies. In 2024, Netflix acquired the documentary Yintah, which follows Indigenous activists with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en First Nation looking to protect their lands and was directed by Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham and Brenda Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix also streams the Arctic-set Indigenous comedy North of North, a co-production with the CBC. That ongoing support for Indigenous movies and creators also comes amid calls by local indie producers and other cultural nationalists for Netflix and other U.S. tech giants and foreign players to be subject to the same content expenditure obligations as traditional broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCeremony is written by Hanuse and Jessica Mayhew and is produced by Smayaykila Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has nabbed the Indigenous feature documentary Ceremony after a SXSW world premiere. Director Bianchi Hanuse\u2019s film will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[103,88,206,217,66422],"class_list":["post-903571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-sxsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}