Northern Lights

Update: Northern Lights has received the support of award-winning Canadian actress Michelle Thrush, Piikani (Blackfoot) Elder and Knowledge Holder Harley Bastien, as well Indigenous Vision Executive Director Souta Calling Last. They have teamed with author Brad Himour to promote the script and help advance it toward production.
The story was conceived and written by Brad Himour following six years of interviews with Aboriginal Elders in western Canada. It focuses on indigenous views of Mother Nature and how to promote the preservation and conservation of wild places.

Northern Lights
Log Line: A young Indigenous lawyer must choose between representing an oil company or protecting a sacred Blackfoot mountain with the help of Mother Nature’s spirits.
Synopsis: A young Indigenous lawyer CODY (27) brings his fiancée MARIAS (26) to meet everyone from his Wapiti First Nation community at a summer camp being held in a stunning river valley. The Elders have have heard that Cody will be representing an oil company that is seeking to fracture new oil wells on a sacred mountain – WAPITI MOUNTAIN, the tiny luminescent spirits of Mother Nature that represent the spirit of every rock, every tree, every plant and every animal that are part of Wapiti First Nation culture. The little spirits agree to help Cody and Marias get back to their world, but soon after the group is nearly killed by the fracturing of a well site by the oil and gas company. With the help of the little spirits named SONGBIRD, FOX and TWISTER, Cody and Marias begin their epic journey home. Their adventure takes them through ancient stalactite and stalagmite caverns, past underground waterfalls, down a snow-covered glacier and across an old growth forest trail where wolves and bears threaten them at every turn. Finally, the group embarks on a heart-pounding whitewater rafting adventure as a last-ditch effort to get back to civilization.
Changed by his adventure, Cody has only a few days to decide if he will continue to support the oil and gas development or join his father and lead the community in opposition to the project. A major press conference is scheduled by the oil company in the Wapiti First Nation community - with Cody as the keynote speaker. Marias tells Cody what he already knows. “You can’t have it both ways. You have to choose.” Cody arrives at the press conference still not sure which path to follow. He takes the briefing notes prepared by his company, looks at his father and grandfather standing in the back of the audience, and steps up to the microphone.
Brad Himour
587-435-3977 bhimour@hotmail.com
WGA West Registration Number: 2084488