"Danielle Paradis, a Métis freelance journalist who was working with Ms. Lightning on a documentary about climate change in the Prairies, said the filmmaker was always fighting to show the “bigger picture” in her work.
“She wanted to make sure that whoever was working on [the documentary] understood the complexities of resource extraction in Indigenous communities, because that’s often presented as one of the only ways out of poverty for these communities,” Ms. Paradis said."
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