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No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong) Music Video

Indigenous mothers, grandmothers and others are teaming up in song, spoken word and video to push back against a new toxic, highly polluting tar sands oil pipeline. “Line 3” cuts through the heart of Native land and crosses more than 200 water bodies – including the Mississippi River twice – a drinking water source for millions of people downstream from the river’s headwaters, which begins in northern Minnesota featuring Waubanewquay, Winona LaDuke, Day Sisters, Mumu Fresh, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt and poet Joy Harjo. Song by folksinger and activist Larry Long.

  • Keri Pickett
    Director
    The Fabulous Ice Age, First Daughter and the Black Snake, Steel Spirit, Float 23, Annie Humphrey's St. John & Mikwum
  • Pickett Pictures llc
    Producer
    The Fabulous Ice Age, First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Honor the Earth
    Producer
  • Winona LaDuke
    Key Cast
    "self"
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Tara Houska
    Key Cast
    "self"
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Tania Aubid
    Key Cast
    "self"
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Dawn Goodwin
    Key Cast
    "self"
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Larry Long
    Writer
  • Keri Pickett
    Editors
    Steel Spirit, Float 23
  • River Akemann
    Editors
  • Sarah LittleRedFeather
    Cinematographers
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • River Akemann
    Cinematographers
  • Keri Pickett
    Cinematographers
    The Fabulous Ice Age, First Daughter and the Black Snake, Steel Spirit, Float 23
  • River Akemann
    Colorist
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 20, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Earth Day 2021 Honor the Earth Virtual Concert
    Minneapolis
    United States
    April 22, 2021
    Honor the Earth Virtual Concert
  • International Music Video Underground
    Paris
    France
    April 29, 2021
    Award Winner
  • 19th Oakland International Film Festival
    Oakland, CA
    United States
    September 16, 2021
  • Rome Independent Prisma Awards
    Rome
    Italy
    May 6, 2021
    Best Music Video Award
  • Australia Independent Film Festival
    Brisbane, Queensland
    Australia
    Finalist
  • Global Music Awards
    La Jolla, CA
    United States
    August 13, 2021
    Award Winner
  • Music Video Awards
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    July 3, 2021
    Best Editing Award
  • Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
    Minneapolis, MN
    United States
    April 29, 2021
Distribution Information
  • Honor the Earth
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Keri Pickett

Keri Pickett is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author and artist interested in family and community which may be seen in her documentation of life’s commonalities in disparate communities. As a producer, director and cinematographer, her feature documentary films have included “The Fabulous Ice Age” which was a Netflix Original in 10 languages and “First Daughter and the Black Snake” which both won numerous awards. Her films have also been shown at the Napa Valley Film Festival, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow and the Arizona International Film Festival, the Marfa Film Festival. Pickett is a 2017 McKnight Foundation Fellow in Media Arts and co-director with Dawn Mikkelson of the documentary feature film "Finding Her Beat" which has been premieres at Mill Valley and has been selected by Heartland, Doc NYC, Hot Springs Documentary, Sound Unseen and many other festivals in the fall of 2022. Pickett has been awarded numerous fellowships including a 2017 McKnight Foundation Media Fellowship.

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Director Statement

With the “No More Pipeline Blues” music video, we share the beauty of the pristine waters of northern Minnesota, the inspirational leadership of indigenous women and the courage of “water protectors.” Filmed over a four-month period by Honor the Earth media artists Sarah LittleRedFeather, River Akemann and myself, Keri Pickett, the footage reflects the spiritual, serious and sometimes unconventional methods used to halt construction of the Enbridge tar sands oil pipeline. From the December 2020 arrival of more than 4,000 workers during the height of the pandemic, the film shows how severe cold, Covid-19 and the coordinated invasion of county and state police have not deterred local resistance against Line 3 by those who believe that it threatens northern Minnesota’s water supply and that ‘water is life.’ As the song sings, ‘No more, no more, no more pipeline blues. Don’t let Line 3 come through!’" – Keri Pickett, Filmmaker & Photographer