The fight for B.C.’s old growth comes to Victoria’s silver screens

By Evan Lindsay
Victoria News
June 2, 2025
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada West

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.  “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.

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