First Nations Development Institute-backed documentary wins James Beard media award

LONGMONT — “Gather,” a documentary film made with the support of the Longmont-based First Nations Development Institute, is a winner of the 2022 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Award in the category of Documentary/Docuseries Visual Media. 

“The full-length film is the result of a two-year collaboration between First Nations and director Sanjay Rawal and showcases these community partners and their efforts to rebuild healthy and sustainable food ways,” according to an institute news release. “The film explores the importance of Native food systems that were once deliberately destroyed and the heroic ‘post-apocalyptic’ efforts underway to rebuild them.”

First Nations is a nonprofit…