Ceremony

Event ID: FS19491
Mon, Mar 16, 2026 | 2:15 AM - 3:38 AM
Venue: Alamo Lamar 9 (Alamo Lamar)
Summary

At the bank of the Bella Coola River, Nuxalk people listen to dreams, radio waves, to the silence left by the vanished ooligan run. Through drifting boats, archival records and animated ancestral folklore, their voices trace a rupture, an ecological collapse entwined with colonial violence. As a new generation rebuilds homes on forbidden land and rekindles ceremony, they ask whether the fish will return or if the people themselves must become the current that calls them home.
Format: Documentary Feature
Category: Documentary Feature
Event Type: screening
Presented By: n/a
Contributors

Banchi Hanuse
Raw Event JSON

Large nested arrays are compacted for page readability. Full payload remains in dataset files.
Open JSON payload
{
  "id": "FS19491",
  "track": "Documentary Spotlight",
  "focus_area": null,
  "category": "Documentary Feature",
  "event_id": "FS19491",
  "event_type": "screening",
  "format": "Documentary Feature",
  "genre": "Documentary",
  "subgenre": "Environment\rIndigenous Culture\rPolitics\rReligion/Spirtuality\rNative American/Indigenous",
  "name": "Ceremony",
  "presented_by": null,
  "publish_at": "2026-02-04T14:00:00.000-06:00",
  "reservable": true,
  "reservable_id": "FS19491",
  "reserved": false,
  "date": "2026-03-16",
  "end_time": "2026-03-16T22:38:00.000-05:00",
  "start_time": "2026-03-16T21:15:00.000-05:00",
  "message": null,
  "image": {
    "alt_text": "Ceremony",
    "credit": "Smayaykila Films",
    "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/LCFaGdQw2Pso2Eg94q04yAequA8=/950x633/images.sxsw.com/183/f2bdd604-1e96-2381-4a5a-07fd50476c4e/ceremony-351945"
  },
  "credentials": [
    {
      "name": "Platinum Badge",
      "type": "platinum"
    },
    {
      "name": "Film & TV Badge",
      "type": "filmtv"
    }
  ],
  "contributors": [
    {
      "id": 80297,
      "company": null,
      "credential_types": [
        "filmtv"
      ],
      "entity_id": 2241766,
      "name": "Banchi Hanuse",
      "speaker_types": [
        "Director"
      ],
      "title": null,
      "image": {
        "alt_text": "Banchi Hanuse",
        "credit": "",
        "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/v7qoa-l-V4PzKYCc4LnhAaUJdHc=/600x600/images.sxsw.com/180/2fbc9af4-81fb-8ba0-7af8-7ce2ba168a22/banchi-hanuse-351945-director1"
      },
      "speaker_type": "Director",
      "details": "Banchi Hanuse works across film and radio as a co-founder of Nuxalk Radio, supporting Nuxalk language revitalization, upholding Nuxalk Nationhood and advocating for stewardship of Nuxalk homelands. She directed “Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun” (2023), which premiered at Big Sky (Big Sky Award) and Hot Docs.",
      "links": {
        "instagram": "https://instagram.com/banchihanuse",
        "twitter": "https://x.com/sltslani"
      },
      "type": "person"
    }
  ],
  "venue": {
    "accessible": false,
    "age_policy": null,
    "floor": null,
    "id": "V0552",
    "indoor_outdoor": "INDOOR",
    "mixhalo_url": null,
    "name": "Alamo Lamar 9",
    "parent_id": "V0549",
    "parent_venue_name": "Alamo Lamar",
    "venue_entry_info": null,
    "formats": null,
    "location": {
      "address": "1120 S Lamar Blvd.",
      "lat_lon": [
        30.2561977,
        -97.7635717
      ],
      "city": "Austin",
      "postal_code": "78704",
      "state": "TX",
      "name": "Alamo Lamar"
    },
    "root": {
      "id": "V0549",
      "name": "Alamo Lamar",
      "mixhalo_url": null
    },
    "events": "[omitted 5 venue events]"
  },
  "description": null,
  "audio_url": null,
  "accessibility": [
    "Closed captioned",
    "Subtitles"
  ],
  "accessible_venue": false,
  "add_bcl_url": false,
  "add_slido": false,
  "after_midnight": null,
  "age_policy": null,
  "american_sign_language": false,
  "apple_url": null,
  "audio_description": false,
  "caption_url": null,
  "captioned_qa": false,
  "closed_captioned": true,
  "cpe_credit": false,
  "event_status": "none",
  "has_subtitles": true,
  "hash_tags": [],
  "high_sensory_experience": false,
  "live": false,
  "long_description": "At the bank of the Bella Coola River, Nuxalk people listen to dreams, radio waves, to the silence left by the vanished ooligan run. Through drifting boats, archival records and animated ancestral folklore, their voices trace a rupture, an ecological collapse entwined with colonial violence. As a new generation rebuilds homes on forbidden land and rekindles ceremony, they ask whether the fish will return or if the people themselves must become the current that calls them home.",
  "meeting_url": null,
  "meeting_url_live": false,
  "mentorly_url": null,
  "mobile_audio_url": null,
  "open_captioned": false,
  "playlist_tag": null,
  "rebroadcast": false,
  "recommended_ids": [],
  "search_conversions": null,
  "short_program": false,
  "slido_url": null,
  "sort": "CEREMONY",
  "source": "Official",
  "squad_up_url": "https://sxswfilmtvticketing.com/?search=Ceremony&location=Alamo-Lamar-9&date=3-16",
  "stream_embed": null,
  "stream_id": null,
  "stream_url": null,
  "strobe_warning": false,
  "subdiscipline": null,
  "summit": null,
  "summit_display_name": null,
  "tags": [
    {
      "id": 2481,
      "name": "Indigenous Voices",
      "created_at": "2024-02-13T16:51:45.767-06:00",
      "updated_at": "2024-02-13T16:51:45.767-06:00",
      "sort": "INDIGENOUS VOICES",
      "alpha": "I"
    },
    {
      "id": 2403,
      "name": "Indigenous",
      "created_at": "2023-02-14T14:50:35.924-06:00",
      "updated_at": "2023-02-14T14:50:35.924-06:00",
      "sort": "INDIGENOUS",
      "alpha": "I"
    },
    {
      "id": 2037,
      "name": "Documentary",
      "created_at": "2018-02-09T18:41:07.097-06:00",
      "updated_at": "2022-02-14T12:08:00.193-06:00",
      "sort": "DOCUMENTARY",
      "alpha": "D"
    }
  ],
  "talent_attending": null,
  "title_only": false,
  "track_display_name": null,
  "trailer_id": null,
  "trailer_url": null,
  "video_on_demand": null,
  "vimeo_id": null,
  "vod": false,
  "xr_project_type": null,
  "youtube_id": null,
  "films": [
    {
      "id": "351945",
      "entity_id": 2241765,
      "name": "Ceremony",
      "runtime": "83",
      "premiere_type": "World Premiere",
      "theme": "Documentary Spotlight",
      "category": "Documentary Feature",
      "language": "English, Nuxalk with English Subtitles",
      "production_year": 2026,
      "program_flag": false,
      "publish_at": "2026-02-04T14:00:00-06:00",
      "description": "At the bank of the Bella Coola River, Nuxalk people listen to dreams, radio waves, to the silence left by the vanished ooligan run. Through drifting boats, archival records and animated ancestral folklore, their voices trace a rupture, an ecological collapse entwined with colonial violence. As a new generation rebuilds homes on forbidden land and rekindles ceremony, they ask whether the fish will return or if the people themselves must become the current that calls them home.",
      "logline": "From ramshackled Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, the disappearance of the ooligan run reveals a buried history deeper than the river itself.",
      "long_description": "At the bank of the Bella Coola River, Nuxalk people listen to dreams, radio waves, to the silence left by the vanished ooligan run. Through drifting boats, archival records and animated ancestral folklore, their voices trace a rupture, an ecological collapse entwined with colonial violence. As a new generation rebuilds homes on forbidden land and rekindles ceremony, they ask whether the fish will return or if the people themselves must become the current that calls them home.",
      "genre": [
        "Documentary"
      ],
      "country_of_origin": [
        "Canada"
      ],
      "presenters": [],
      "events": [
        {
          "id": "FS19490",
          "track": "Documentary Spotlight",
          "focus_area": null,
          "category": "Documentary Feature",
          "event_id": "FS19490",
          "event_type": "screening",
          "format": "Documentary Feature",
          "genre": "Documentary",
          "subgenre": "Environment\rIndigenous Culture\rPolitics\rReligion/Spirtuality\rNative American/Indigenous",
          "name": "Ceremony",
          "presented_by": null,
          "publish_at": "2026-02-04T14:00:00.000-06:00",
          "reservable": true,
          "reservable_id": "FS19490",
          "reserved": false,
          "date": "2026-03-14",
          "end_time": "2026-03-14T18:53:00.000-05:00",
          "start_time": "2026-03-14T17:30:00.000-05:00",
          "message": null,
          "thumbnail": {
            "alt_text": "Ceremony",
            "credit": "Smayaykila Films",
            "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/PMUxsxj2e47EZs9BUXGQ77GLAKI=/950x950/images.sxsw.com/197/4c010210-9fb2-ffe1-bf60-f82006964d65/ceremony-351945"
          },
          "credentials": [
            {
              "name": "Platinum Badge",
              "type": "platinum"
            },
            {
              "name": "Film & TV Badge",
              "type": "filmtv"
            }
          ],
          "venue": {
            "accessible": false,
            "age_policy": null,
            "floor": null,
            "id": "V0550",
            "indoor_outdoor": "INDOOR",
            "mixhalo_url": null,
            "name": "Alamo Lamar 6",
            "parent_id": "V0549",
            "parent_venue_name": "Alamo Lamar",
            "venue_entry_info": null,
            "formats": null,
            "root": {
              "id": "V0549",
              "name": "Alamo Lamar",
              "mixhalo_url": null
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "FS19491",
          "track": "Documentary Spotlight",
          "focus_area": null,
          "category": "Documentary Feature",
          "event_id": "FS19491",
          "event_type": "screening",
          "format": "Documentary Feature",
          "genre": "Documentary",
          "subgenre": "Environment\rIndigenous Culture\rPolitics\rReligion/Spirtuality\rNative American/Indigenous",
          "name": "Ceremony",
          "presented_by": null,
          "publish_at": "2026-02-04T14:00:00.000-06:00",
          "reservable": true,
          "reservable_id": "FS19491",
          "reserved": false,
          "date": "2026-03-16",
          "end_time": "2026-03-16T22:38:00.000-05:00",
          "start_time": "2026-03-16T21:15:00.000-05:00",
          "message": null,
          "thumbnail": {
            "alt_text": "Ceremony",
            "credit": "Smayaykila Films",
            "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/PMUxsxj2e47EZs9BUXGQ77GLAKI=/950x950/images.sxsw.com/197/4c010210-9fb2-ffe1-bf60-f82006964d65/ceremony-351945"
          },
          "credentials": [
            {
              "name": "Platinum Badge",
              "type": "platinum"
            },
            {
              "name": "Film & TV Badge",
              "type": "filmtv"
            }
          ],
          "venue": {
            "accessible": false,
            "age_policy": null,
            "floor": null,
            "id": "V0552",
            "indoor_outdoor": "INDOOR",
            "mixhalo_url": null,
            "name": "Alamo Lamar 9",
            "parent_id": "V0549",
            "parent_venue_name": "Alamo Lamar",
            "venue_entry_info": null,
            "formats": null,
            "root": {
              "id": "V0549",
              "name": "Alamo Lamar",
              "mixhalo_url": null
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        {
          "id": 2481,
          "name": "Indigenous Voices",
          "sort": "INDIGENOUS VOICES",
          "alpha": "I",
          "created_at": "2024-02-13T16:51:45-06:00",
          "updated_at": "2024-02-13T16:51:45-06:00"
        },
        {
          "id": 2403,
          "name": "Indigenous",
          "sort": "INDIGENOUS",
          "alpha": "I",
          "created_at": "2023-02-14T14:50:35-06:00",
          "updated_at": "2023-02-14T14:50:35-06:00"
        },
        {
          "id": 2037,
          "name": "Documentary",
          "sort": "DOCUMENTARY",
          "alpha": "D",
          "created_at": "2018-02-09T18:41:07-06:00",
          "updated_at": "2022-02-14T12:08:00-06:00"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/SmayaykilaFilms/",
        "instagram": "https://instagram.com/smayaykilafilms",
        "twitter": "https://x.com/SmayaykilaFilms",
        "website": "https://smayaykila.com/ceremony"
      },
      "video": {},
      "video_on_demand": null,
      "contacts": [
        {
          "label": "Public Film Contact",
          "company": "Smayaykila Films",
          "email": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "label": "Publicity Contact",
          "name": "Nicola Pender",
          "company": "Pender PR",
          "email": "[email protected]"
        }
      ],
      "credits": [
        {
          "label": "Director",
          "values": [
            "Banchi Hanuse"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Producer",
          "values": [
            "Banchi Hanuse"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Cinematographer",
          "values": [
            "Luke Connor",
            "Jean-Philippe Marquis"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Editor",
          "values": [
            "Erin Cumming",
            "Sarah Taylor"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Sound",
          "values": [
            "Joe Watts"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Music",
          "values": [
            "Jesse Zubot"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Cast",
          "values": [
            "Megan F. Moody, Qwaxw Siwallace, Snuxyaltwa Deric Snow, Nuskmata Jacinda Mack, Q’umulha Schooner, Sunhwrna Schooner, Jason E. Moody, Snxakila Clyde Tallio, Kmalsuuncw Orden Mack, Tom Swanky"
          ]
        },
        {
          "label": "Crew",
          "values": [
            "Animator: Jay White, Animation Artist: Anuximana Jade Hanuse"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "related_films": []
    }
  ],
  "related_events": [],
  "related_sales_client": null
}