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Fairy Creek by Kent Hill, March 7, 2025
Jen Muranetz’s Fairy Creek immediately brought to mind something Kurt Vonnegut once wrote: “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” For it will ultimately be the ever-looming specter of big business, which will finally turn the last of the precious bio-spherical elements that sustain life into cash …”
Overly Honest Reviews
Last Stand: a Fight for the Future by Chris Jones, November 8, 2024
RAVING REVIEW: In the expanses of Vancouver Island, FAIRY CREEK unfolds as a visceral document of confrontation and endurance, directed by Jen Muranetz, with a specific and intent cinematic eye. The film plunges into the heart of an environmental standoff, capturing the tension and enthusiasm among those fighting to protect the ancient forests of the Fairy Creek watershed. Through a compelling vérité approach, Muranetz gets up close and personal with the struggles and sacrifices of a community standing on the frontline of conservation. — ★★★★☆
Peace Brigades International - Canada
New “Fairy Creek” documentary revisits the blockades on Pacheedaht territory that experienced RCMP C-IRG violence by Brent Patterson on October 13, 2024
“The frontline documentary FAIRY CREEK will premiere in Toronto at the Planet in Focus Film Festival on October 17. Details about that screening can be found here.
That web-page notes there will be “a post screening live Q&A with the Director Jen Muranetz and Director of Photography/Co-Producer Sepehr Samimi.” …”
CBC ON THE COAST with Gloria Macarenko
New documentary film Fairy Creek premieres at Planet in Focus international film festival, October 8, 2024
Director, Jen Muranetz, speaks with On The Coast about her latest film, "Fairy Creek", a documentary film that recuonts the stories of the protest on the ground at the Fairy Creek blockade.Learn more