"Gorgeously photographed, compulsively watchable and deeply sympathetic." The Globe and Mail

Hot Docs Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival

Interweaving speculation, myth and reality, this compelling hybrid of drama and documentary covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an extraordinary 300-year-old tree held sacred by the indigenous Haida nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and survivalist who lived and worked happily for many years in BCʼs ancient forests. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting, Hadwin was finally driven to commit what some would say was an extraordinary and perverse act, one that ran contrary to all he had come to value.

Canada - 2015 - 1h 27m
Directed By: Sasha Snow
Written By: Sasha Snow, John Vaillant
Starring: Douglas Chapman, Michael Kopsa, John Vaillant