Drowned Land

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CCFF 2025 Winner - Best Documentary Feature! Screening includes Q&A with director Colleen Thurston and more to be announced. Ticket also includes admission to a post-film catered reception in the lobby.

1h26min - Doc - English - Screen 1

About the film: In the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Kiamichi River is a bastion of eco-diversity. A Texas corporation seeks to dam and build a hydroelectric plant on the river. For a group of locals, theirs is a generations-long struggle with resource extraction and displacement that began with the Trail of Tears. While the river drives the narrative, the director reflects on her Choctaw grandfather’s role in designing and building dams for the Army Corps of Engineers that displaced countless Oklahomans, many of them Native. Interwoven are the stories of the river’s advocates—residents, Choctaw culture-keepers, and scientists—who have come together to protect the river.