Heiltsuk Nation artist and community member, Max Johnson, provides a tour of the awe inspiring Big House in Bella Bella and explains how he discovered red cedar is medicine while working there.

This is a bonus scene from the award-wining rural healthcare documentary, The Edge of Care, which is streaming on our channel here:    • THE EDGE OF CARE #remotecare #virtual...  

Winner 2022-23 International Gold Muse Awards - Medicine & Educational
Winner 2022-23 International Hermes Creative Awards - Video, Social Media

"THE EDGE OF CARE" follows the story of community leaders, elders, artists, knowledge keepers, and physicians as they work together to deliver equitable health care to the most remote and rural communities in British Columbia.

With thoughtfulness, intention and kindness, these characters are re-building trust: braiding together thoughtful, culturally safe, on the ground health care with cutting edge technology. Using videoconferencing and a willingness to meet people where they are, "Real Time Virtual Support" is connecting patients in Canada's most remote places with the health care they need.

The people in this film opened up their homes, their clinics and their hearts to us. We honour their stories in this visceral documentary film, set deep in British Columbia's vast wilderness.

To find out more: go to https://rccbc.ca/initiatives/rtvs/

FEATURING
Max Johnson

PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR
Zachary Rothman

PRODUCER
Stephen Gillis

CINEMATOGRAPHER & EDITOR
Sam McGuinness

AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHER
Paul Milaire

Roots and Recognition
“Stillness Within”
Licensed via Epidemic Sound

Produced by UBC Faculty of Medicine – Digital Solutions: Education – EdTech

This was filmed in the community of Bella Bella, on the unceded and traditional territories of the Heiltsuk peoples.

We acknowledge our traditional hosts and honour their welcome and graciousness to the students who seek knowledge here.

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