From the front lines of Fairy Creek to the silver screen comes a new documentary capturing the fight for B.C.'s old-growth.
Fairy Creek is a new documentary from Jen Muranetz, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller based out of Vancouver, B.C.
The film tells the story of the Fairy Creek blockade protests, which made headlines nationwide as one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian History.
“With unique insider access and use of in-the-trenches cinema vérité, Fairy Creek offers an intimate, fly-on-the-wall view of collective resistance,” said Nicole Trask, of Pender PR, in a news release.
“Viewers are brought into the throes of this complex standoff, where blockaders form barriers with their bodies and tree-sitters’ forest canopies are assailed by police officers deployed from helicopters.”
Murantez tells the story from the frontlines, presenting an “intimate, fly-on-the-wall" view of the resistance – from the retaliation of forestry workers, to rising tensions and arrests.
Fairy Creek premiered at the Planet in Focus Film Festival, where it won the Best Canadian Feature Award. The film also screened at the Whistler Film Festival, Victoria Film Festival and the “prestigious” Big Sky Film Festival in Montana.
Now the film is set to screen in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Sudbury, and Lasqueti Island, with more cities to be added.
The film is set to screen in Victoria at UVic’s Cinecenta June 6 and 7 and then at the Roxy Theatre June 13,14,17, and 18.
Tickets for showings at the Roxy are available now online at roxyvictoria.ca.
