We were fortunate again to have a professional Gitksan language expert with us thanks to GWES. Audrey Woods was wonderful to work with as she was very patient and really encouraged the youth to narrate their own pieces. It’s often an elder’s voice that narrates the young filmmakers films for our world, because that is the reality of the situation. None of the youth speak the old language. However, Audrey encouraged the young filmmakers to narrate their pieces, one word at a time…

(and we’d edit the words together for the final pieces).

Here are 3 of the youth that tried their voices at narrating in Gitksan.

Gordon, for his piece, “Breaking the Cycle”
Jaye, for his piece,”Living off the Land”
and Jezabel for “Its never too late”