
Banchi Hanuse
Directing
Biography
Banchi Hanuse is an award-winning Nuxalk filmmaker known for her documentary shorts. She is the founder of Q'umk'uts' (Bella Coola)'s Nuxalk Radio, a radio station keeping the Nuxalk language alive.
Known For

Through ramshackled Nuxalk Radio, the disappearance of the ooligan from the Bella Coola River unearths a hidden history that threatens to crack the Valley wide open.
Ceremony

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive being held or if they were never meant to be captured.
Cry Rock

Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years. Explores the deep historical, social, and economic factors that contribute to this epidemic of violence against Native women.
Finding Dawn

A day in the life of 91.1, Nuxalk Radio, a radio station built to help keep the Nuxalk language alive while broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters.
Nuxalk Radio

An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world… bareback.