Learn about our Scared Ancient Forests and the importance of Indigenous Land Stewardship from two award winning documentaries
These two Documentaries will take you on a journey through through time, culture, and some of the most ancient and sacred ecosystems on the face of this planet. Both were filmed during the heart of the Ada’istx/Fairy Creek Blockade.
If you would like to watch either film in full please send a gift in the form of etransfer to the dzunukwasociety@gmail.com and we send you access to view the films.
Rematriation was filmed during the heart of Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek Blockade. The Blockade is Canada's largest act of civil disobedience in protecting old growth in B.C 1000 arrests. The film follows concerned First Nation Land defenders and BC citizens exploring the scientific, cultural, economic, and sociopolitical dynamics that revolve around this issue.
A film by Alexi Liotti and Colm Keating
Featuring local scientist Herb Hammond, and interviews with Elder Bill Jones, Grandma Losah, Rainbow Eyes, Roy Henry Vickers, Ken Wu, TJ Watt, Kathy Code, Tzeporah Berman, Nathalie Bolt, Johnny Korthuis and more.
BEFORE THEY FALL features First Nations, conservation groups, and scientists have been fighting to protect the remaining old-growth forests in British Columbia for decades, but the conflict escalates when a logging company tries to access the last unprotected ancient watershed on southern Vancouver Island. Land defenders block the road to the cut blocks and hundreds of thousands join them. A telling illustration of decades of indigenous disenfranchisement, Before They Fall tells the story of the blockade at ‘Ada’itsx (Fairy Creek) and points to the Indigenous voices calling out for defense of the land.
A film by Cam Macarthur and Momme Halbe
Featuring TJ Watt, Dr. Suzanne Simard, Rande Cook, Rainbow Eyes, and Land Defenders at Fairy Creek