Hadwins Judgement
National Film Board of Canada • 1h 31m
"Gorgeously photographed, compulsively watchable and deeply sympathetic." The Globe and Mail
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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
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