Heartwood mini-doc | Chapter 2: Cut & Run

The Industrial Model – forest liquidation, log exports, job losses, mill-closures and political cash. Chapter 2 of the Heartwood mini-doc explores BC’s unique blend of of industrial forest liquidation, industry der...

Heartwood mini-doc | Chapter 1: Mining for Old-Growth

How Vancouver Island lost 90% of it’s prime old-growth temperate rainforest. In Part 1 of this new 3-part mini-series, we explore the endangered old-growth forests of Vancouver Island. Despite the reality that less...

Heartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree

We’ve got another big release today! Here is the brand new trailer for Heartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree. Featuring almost four years worth of footage, stunning aerials by my brother Andrew Pierce, an or...

Heartwood Indiegogo Campaign is live!

We’ve just launched our final Indiegogo campaign to bring our sprawling documentary series Heartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree to completion. Check it out at https://igg.me/at/HeartwoodDoc/x/1856867 for al...

The Central Walbran Valley

The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience resulted in hundreds of arrests in Clayoquot Sound in response...

Wayne Crowley vs. TimberWest

Beginning in 2006, following clear-cutting in the Beaufort Range on private forestlands owned TimberWest—the largest private landowner in BC—heavy rains caused flash floods, which carried heavy siltation and debris down ...

Powell River & Island Timberlands

Powell River has been fighting for its urban forests, which are slated to be logged by Island Timberlands. I.T. has been at the forefront of many forestry conflicts on the west coast of British Columbia, from Cortes Isla...

Heartwood: Port Alberni & Island Timberlands

In order to understand what’s at stake on Cortes Island and elsewhere on BC’s coast, one has to travel to Port Alberni to see what’s already been lost. Port Alberni, historically a logging and port town...

Kinder Morgan Injunction Enforcement | 20•Nov•2014

RCMP herd the demonstrators into a “Designated Demonstration Zone” farther up the road on Burnaby Mountain, while enforcing an injunction for Texas-based pipeline company Kinder Morgan. The company obtained a...

“Don’t Go To Work Today” | 20•Nov•2014

While young land defender Marija Brzev is locked by her neck to a concrete block, her friends take care of her, giving her herbs and traditional medicines, and singing one of the most haunting songs you’ve probably...

Sut’Lut is Arrested | 20•Nov•2014

Squamish elder Sut’Lut is arrested by RCMP while they enforce Kinder Morgan’s injunction on Burnaby Mountain on November 20th, 2014. More video reports from Burnaby Mountain here: vimeo.com/112460500 vimeo.co...

Burnaby Mountain Solidarity Rally | 17•Nov•2014

Since September, the Burnaby Mountain Caretakers, led by indigenous activists, have been blocking survey work on Burnaby Mountain by Texas based pipeline company Kinder Morgan. On Friday, Nov. 15, Kinder Morgan obtained ...

Bass Coast 2014 Video Recap: Mutiny

Check out our video recap from Bass Coast 2014: MUTINY and our interview with Bass Coast co-founder Andrea Graham (aka The Librarian.) The Mutiny Manifesto A mutinous spirit manifests itself in the Uniqueness of the peop...

Coastal BC’s Ancient Forest Movement

BC’s Ancient Forest Movement is a diverse coalition of First Nations and settler communities, youth and elders, unions and business leaders, which is united against industrial scale logging of old-growth forests on...

Hul’qumi’num First Nations & the “Great Land Grab”

An interview with Robert Morales, Chief Negotiator for the Hul’qumi’num First Nations Treaty Group, about the E&N Railway Land Grants of 1887 and the lasting repercussions of this massive “land grab” for the Hul’qumi...

Klahoose First Nation & Community Forestry

In October 2013 it was announced that the Klahoose First Nation and the Cortes Community Forest Co-Op had been jointly awarded a Community Forest tenure on Cortes Island, which will constitute the majority of the Crown l...

The Cortes Community Forest Co-Op

In a historic announcement, the BC government has granted the Klahoose First Nation and the Cortes Island Community Forest Co-Op a Community Forest tenure on 3,700 acres of so-called “Crown” or public lands on Cortes—a d...

Tosh Harvey: A Young Forest Guardian

Tosh has lived on Cortes Island for most of his life, learning how to live on the land and be a good forest steward. But when Island Timberlands announced their plans to log on Cortes, Tosh joined the movement to try and...

Timber & Tourism: Maurelle Island

BC Timber Sales has issued the logging contract for Maurelle Island, despite the concerns of local tour guides that their input has been largely ignored. Eco-tour guide Mike Moore takes us on a journey through the Lower ...

FOR OUR DAUGHTERS • Trailer #1

Four teenage girls travel from Northern Ghana to Canada, where they embark upon a life-changing speaking tour to tell their stories of how they struggled to go to school. The goal of the tour is to raise enough money to ...

THE HOLLOW TREE • Extended Trailer

A group of specialists bands together to come up with a solution to a bizarre problem: how do you keep a thousand-year-old cedar standing forever? This one-hour documentary premiered at the DOXA Film Festival (2011) and ...

THE WOODWARD’S FRAGMENTS • Entire Series

Before the demolition of the iconic Woodward’s Building in downtown Vancouver, the architect and heritage consultant, Gregory Henriquez and Hal Kalman, took on the huge task of salvaging massive fragments from the ...
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