
The Issue with Tissue - A Boreal Love Story
Synopsis
The Issue with Tissue - a boreal love story documents the little known, largely untold story of the boreal forest and the Indigenous First Nations who call it home - how protecting and conserving the boreal is an existential imperative and that unfettered extractive industrial exploitation of the few remaining wild spaces, like the boreal, must be curtailed if life as we know it on Planet Earth is to sustain. Told by the First Nations Elders and Leaders of the boreal, leading scientists and activists, The Issue with Tissue creates a kind of talking circle that inspires our storytellers to speak with intimacy and candor about the issues confronting us all, sharing their enlightened, unified vision that the way forward lies in supporting and elevating Indigenous knowledge/stewardship in combination with the ages old wisdom that can be found in the life of these forests and trees.
Credits
- Michael Zelnikeras Self
- Dave Courcheneas Self - Anishinaabe First Nation
- Valerie Courtoisas Self - Innu First Nation
- Michele Audetteas Self - Innu First Nation
- Dave Porteras Self - Kaska First Nation & CEO, First Nations Energy and Mining Council
- Suzanne Simardas Self - Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia
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Edited by Michael ZelnikerShot by Abanoub AndraousScored by Victoria Yeh
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12 unique people credited
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Michael Zelniker
as Self
Dave Courchene
as Self - Anishinaabe First Nation
Valerie Courtois
as Self - Innu First Nation
Michele Audette
as Self - Innu First Nation
Dave Porter
as Self - Kaska First Nation & CEO, First Nations Energy and Mining Council
Suzanne Simard
as Self - Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia
Allen J Felix
as Self - Sturgeon Lake First Nation
Nancy Turner
as Self - Ethnobotanist
Serge Ashinigoupil
as Self
Jeff Wells
as Self - Vice President for Boreal Conservation at the National Audubon Society
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