This week on Good Medicine…
We’re speaking with Labrador Inuk filmmaker and journalist Ossie Michelin about his documentary Feather Fall.
Ossie shares how his work helps ensure Indigenous stories are told with integrity, care, and accountability — always grounded in community and responsibility.
In 2013, he reported on the Elsipogtog anti-fracking demonstrations in New Brunswick, a defining moment of Indigenous resistance. He built relationships on the ground, witnessed police raids, reported amid the threat of tear gas while managing asthma, and carried the emotional weight of documenting a community standing up for its land and its future.
Nearly a decade later, after time for healing, he returned to that story — reconnecting with those involved and reflecting on what that moment meant then, and what it means now.
The result is Feather Fall, a documentary from the National Film Board of Canada told through an Indigenous lens. The film revisits Elsipogtog, the iconic viral image of Amanda standing in ceremony before police, and the strength of community resistance that helped maintain a moratorium on shale gas exploration in New Brunswick.
This film is rooted in lived experience — the courage to stand steady when fear rises, and the responsibility of journalism that answers first to community.
You can stream Feather Fall for free in Canada at nfb.ca and on the NFB’s YouTube channel.
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