Saints and Warriors (2025)
- Original title
- Saints And Warriors
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary follows an amateur basketball team from a small Canadian Indigenous community as they get ready for a major annual tournament. The film shows their training and the importance of the event to their community.
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What happens
Saints and Warriors is a 2025 Canadian documentary film, directed by Patrick Shannon. The film profiles the Skidegate Saints, an amateur basketball team from Skidegate, British Columbia, as they prepare to compete in the annual All Native Basketball Tournament. The film premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in February 2025, and had its Canadian premiere in April at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was subsequently screened in May as the closing film of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Colin Low Award. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Greg Ng, Hart Snider) and Best Sound Design in a Documentary (Gregor Phillips, D'wayne Murray, Ramsay Bourquin, May Guimarães, Alex Macia, Devon Quelch, Jake Kerr, Peter Robinson). The film also won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2026 Sundar Prize Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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