Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on June 18, 2023
Understory Film Festival
June 15, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 8 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 3 |
| Participants | 8 |
| Total Hours | 32 |
Key Issue: Climate Change
Activity Type: Education & Outreach (tabling, films & lectures, regional B-walks/works)
Key Partners: Cascade Forest Conservancy
Short Description of Activity
Linda B, Lorena, Stephen B, Joana, Laurie, Lu, Anne, and Doran attended the Film Festival at Kiggins Theatre in VAncouver, Wa.
Reflection/Evaluation
We had a great turnout and the beer was fine, too! Here are the summaries of each of the short films:
REMATRIATION:
Mismanagement and greed have left less than 2.6 % of British Columbia’s old-growth forests standing. Only one of hundreds of valleys remains entirely uncut on Vancouver Island. Rematriation follows an Indigenous-led movement to prevent the cutting of this last Old Growth watershed that has now become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience. The award-winning film explores the confluence of scientific, cultural, economic, and sociopolitical perspectives.
FINDING GULO: THE MOVEMENT TO SAVE THE WOLVERINE
Finding Gulo follows a backcountry ski guide turned wildlife biologist who sets out to document an elusive population of wolverines in the Cascade mountains above Washington’s Methow Valley. This short film celebrates the power of citizen science to protect endangered wildlife in the face of climate change.
RIDING ON THE DARK
A collaborative film project between Mercator Films and Evergreen Gravel Racing which explores the intersections between adventure cycling, conservation, and Indigenous Sovereignty. The film follows 10 cyclists as they disappear into the landscape surrounding the Dark Divide 300, a 330 mile Pacific Northwest bikepacking route through Nisqually, Cowlitz, and Squaxin Island land in Washington state. Tribal leaders from the area provide context on what the land means to them presently, has meant to their Tribes historically, and what the adventure cycling community can do to become better stewards to the land we occupy. The route will be run as an endurance bikepacking race in summer 2023.