"Emergence: Women in the Storm" Doc Feature to Screen Theatrically in Vancouver Starting February 25th

Vancouver, BC  – Transparent Film, in association with the Knowledge Network, will present the world premiere of documentary feature EMERGENCE: WOMEN IN THE STORM from award-winning directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper (Metamorphosis, Incandescence)

Directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper

This unforgettable film follows female frontline responders, community leaders, and disaster survivors as they demonstrate new ways to live and support one another in a time of climate disaster, facing heat domes, wildfire, and flooding in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. 

The film will play to audiences theatrically at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver on February 25th, 2026.

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Amidst an undeniable climate emergency, women are on the frontlines. As first responders and change makers, they provide hope in the face of crisis. Zeroing on recent catastrophes in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, this survival guide and a call to collective imagination is seen through the eyes of those who’ve been impacted by the wildfires, extreme heat and floods surrounding them. Their perspectives reflect a survival instinct triggered by harrowing encounters with nature’s power.

                   

Dancers, Courtney Howard, Sophia Grogono, Tomiko Robson--Photo by Nova Ami

EMERGENCE: WOMEN IN THE STORM is written and directed by Nova Ami (Metamorphosis) and Velcrow Ripper (ScaredSacred), produced by Nova Ami, executive produced by Patrice Ramsay (The Society Page) and edited by Sarah Hedar (Lay Down Your Heart). The film is composed by Mary Ancheta (Nosocomephelia) with cinematography and sound design by Velcrow Ripper and poetry by Meghan Fandrich from “Burning Sage: Poems from the Lytton Fire” Caitlin Press, 2023.

                     Photo Album of Dian Brooks after Princeton Flood, Still from Emergence

The documentary was filmed in Yarrow, Lytton, Boston Bar /Spuzzum, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Princeton, Osoyoos, Vancouver, New Westminster in British Columbia, and in Yellowknife, North West Territories.  EMERGENCE: WOMEN IN THE STORM is A KNOWLEDGE ORIGINAL and was produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.