Watch FAIRY CREEK in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Schedule
Mon, 27 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm
UTC-03:00Location
Carbon Arc Cinema | Halifax, NS
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FAIRY CREEK Tours Nova Scotia!Join Cinema Politica, Understory Films and Friends of Halifax Common for a screening of FAIRY CREEK at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax, NS on October 27, 2025 at 6:30pm
Following the screening, engage in a thoughtful Q&A with FAIRY CREEK’s Director & Producer Jen Muranetz, and Executive Producer Neal Livingston. Moderated by Joseph Jiang.
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ABOUT THE FILM
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FAIRY CREEK
The Fairy Creek (Ada’itsx) valley sprawls across Pacheedaht First Nation territory on southwestern Vancouver Island and its old growth forest ecosystem thrives with lush foliage, ancient tree trunks, and a variety of wildlife. However, the decimating chainsaws and tractor machinery of the Teal Jones lumber corporation disrupt this equilibrium as they demolish an environmental haven for their road-building project. Amidst the tumult, Jen Muranetz’s FAIRY CREEK captures the vast collective protests against this destructive logging operation: a movement which has spawned both the largest demonstration of civil disobedience in Canadian history and the mass arrests of 1200 people.
The film offers visceral front-line footage of activists faced with an RCMP-enforced injunction, protesting from ground to sky as blockaders form barriers with their bodies and tree-sitters’ forest canopies are assailed by officers deployed from helicopters. FAIRY CREEK is an urgent portrait of resistance, documenting an assembly of protestors organizing together despite varying backgrounds, ideologies, and tactics. Muranetz highlights the rapture of a united eco-activist community, coinhabiting the earth, dancing together, and cherishing biodiversity. At the same time, this breathtaking documentary tremors with the challenges of political consciousness in an age of rampant extractive capitalism, where industries working with governments eviscerate everything in their path, including the last pristine ecosystems. FAIRY CREEK depicts a historic struggle to defend Canadian old growth forests as an experience of absolute devotion, thrust between whiplashes of triumph and heartbreak.
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EVENT DETAILS
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Showtimes:
October 27 at 6:30 PM
Location:
Carbon Arc Cinema
In partnership with Friends of Halifax Common
Followed by a post-screening Q&A with FAIRY CREEK’s Director & Producer Jen Muranetz, and Executive Producer Neal Livingston.
Find more information here: https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/fairy-creek/
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Where is it happening?
Carbon Arc Cinema, 1787 Summer St, Halifax, NS B3H, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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