Role: Director, Lead Camera, Lead Editor
Official Selection: Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Spokane Film Festival, Paddling Film Festival, Wild Coast Film Festival, Portland EcoFilm
Devin Reuben is training to be the first certified nimiipuu whitewater guide of his generation. The nimiipuu (Nez Perce) have a long history with rivers and river travel—in fact, they are often credited with introducing the practice to settlers—but centuries of displacement and disconnection means Tribal members are now largely absent from their ancestral rivers and particularly the whitewater recreation industry. Devin and his family are on a mission to change that. Completed with the support of Pandion Institute and the Redford Center’s 2024 Nature Connection Pitch with Mountainfilm & IF/Then Shorts