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Standing with the Ancients
A poetic and in-depth immersion into the forest activists blockading logging roads on Vancouver Island in a fervid attempt to stop old growth logging in Fairy Creek.
When construction of a new logging road was discovered cresting into the untouched Fairy Creek watershed near Port Renfrew on southern Vancouver Island, a group of activists quickly set up a road blockade to stop old growth logging in the area. For nine months, these forest defenders halted road building and old growth logging in the unprotected valley. But when the Supreme Court grants an injunction to remove the camps through police arrests, the blockaders find themselves at the intersection of activism and grief. Will the encroaching threat of arrest stop their efforts to protect Canada’s last ancient forests from being cut down?
In a deja vu of the memorable ‘War in the Woods’ in Clayoquot Sound 30 years ago, Standing with the Ancients is a hybrid mid-length character-driven documentary about the current historical Fairy Creek blockade movement. The film blends an observational, cinema vérité approach with experimental soundscapes and artful archival imagery to create a surrealistic and enveloping embedment into the first-hand experiences of the impassioned forest defenders fighting in the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
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