Michael Toledano is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted as co-director with Jennifer Wickham and Brenda Michell of the 2024 documentary film Yintah.Pat Mullen, "How Yintah Captures the Fight for Witsuwit’en Land". Point of View, April 24, 2024. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary, and Toledano won the award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary, at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.Pat Mullen, "The Tragically Hip, Okurimono Lead Canadian Screen Award Documentary Nominees". Point of View, March 26, 2025.
During production of the film, Toledano, who is Jewish,"This Jewish journalist was embedded with the Wet’suwet’en—then the RCMP arrested him". Canadian Jewish News, December 7, 2021. was arrested and detained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2021.Morgan Lowrie, "Two journalists among 15 people arrested by RCMP near B.C. pipeline worksite". Vancouver Sun, November 20, 2021. The charges against him were later dropped as he had not actually committed any crime."Coastal GasLink drops charges against journalists arrested by RCMP during enforcement of pipeline injunction". CBC News British Columbia, November 22, 2021.
Toledano and Sam Vinal, who was also an executive producer on Yintah, previously co-directed the short documentary film Invasion: The Unist'ot'en's Fight for Sovereignty in 2020.Christopher Driscoll and Lucas Hung, "Five B.C. original films to check out at this years VFF". The Martlet, February 5, 2021.
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