Jessie Levene

Filming at the BC Cabinet & First Nations Leadership Gathering, Vancouver, January 2025.

Since February 2023, I have been working full-time with Munro/Thompson Communications, a strategic communications and creative firm specializing in public relations and digital media production.

Amongst many, many different projects over the last few years, here are a selection of films of which I am most proud:

We’re suing the RCMP: join our fight for press freedom – 4-minute video about The Narwhal and freelance photojournalist Amber Bracken‘s lawsuit against the RCMP for Amber’s wrongful arrest, wrongful detention and violation of her Charter rights.

Bamfield Main Road Reconciliation Project – 15-minute documentary about the final stages of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations-led vision of creating a safer route between Anacla, Bamfield, and Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Action, Advocacy & Change: Twenty Years of the First Nations Leadership Council – 4-minute documentary  on the founding of the First Nations Leadership Council, its work creating meaningful change for First Nations in BC, and its impact on federal and provincial legislation to date.

I recently branched out into a new area – location sound recording for film. It was for a documentary, ‘Save Space Nugget’, commissioned by Telus On Demand. The film chronicles how my own amazing community, Cumberland, BC, came together to save the forest that surrounds the village. You can watch the documentary here, and learn more about the incredible Cumberland Forest Society here.

About a year ago I was thrilled to be invited to work as China Consultant at the development stage of ‘Scared Rivers’, a major 3-part BBC2 series presented by Simon Reeve. The series was eventually commissioned, and all three episodes have recently been broadcast. The Yangtze episode, with which I was most involved, can be watched here, and the whole series here.