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- In the harsh winters of Northern Alberta, a young man struggles to protect his childhood dream of living on the trapline against his changing world. Robert Grandjambe Jr. has spent his life on the trapline, learning from his mother, father and grandfather, and growing into the bushman he dreamed of being as a child. With encroaching industrial development and increasing family obligations, this may be his last chance to live his passion in the freedom of the wild. In the remote village of Fort Chipewyan, food security is scarce, and living off the land has always been important. As more and more people leave the bush for the city, a trappers life becomes increasingly isolated, and his family questions the choices he is making. Determined to continue living amongst the natural world he loves, Robert finds freedom in a dying way of life, as he witnesses the mounting stresses put on the land to feed and power our growing cities.
- A short film about a young group of Native children in Fort Chipewyan, Canada. Their community sits directly downstream from the Alberta Tar Sands, which is the world's largest, most environmentally toxic industrial project. The people in their community are dying of rare forms of cancer, the fish and moose meat have tested positive for highly toxic levels of arsenic, the water is no longer drinkable and there is no end in sight. On their own initiative, the kids formed a little group to protest this environmental crime.
- "Gods Acre is the story of a older Aboriginal man being forced to adapt to a constantly changing world. Climate change has altered the way people live, bringing droughts and floods to previously unaffected areas. And yet, a man continues to live alone in the wilderness like his family before him. Even before global warming and it's catastrophic consequences, he was an outlier to society. His roots remained firmly planted in the customs his family passed on to him. However, every day the outside world's problems are landing closer to his doorstep. Water is rising and swallowing the land his cabin stands on. Now, he must abandon his birthplace or adapt to the new conditions."
- Is water a commercial good like Coca-Cola, or a human right like air?
- Native communities in Alberta, Canada have been living with oil sands development for decades. This film explores the cultural, economic, environmental and health effects of the oil sands on these Cree and Dene people by asking them to tell their own stories.
- Crude Sacrifice takes a look at how one northern community, Fort Chipewyan is affected by the exploitation of Canada's rich Tar Sands development, and how Canada is dealing with their concerns. The health of the land and the people living near the world's largest construction project is discussed by leading scientists and the Aboriginal Peoples. Although this town is located near the earth's second largest fresh water delta, they can no longer drink the water, or eat the fish and other game food which sustained them for thousands of years. The film examines the state of our democracy.
- The oil companies are coming to Warren Cariou's home town. Oil sands operations in Alberta are expanding, which prompts Cariou-a writer and professor from Northern Saskatchewan-to journey back to his homeland to find out what might be gained by this oil development, and what could be lost. In Cariou's conversations with the Native people who live in the area, he learns about their hopes for new prosperity and pride, but he also hears their concerns about the environmental and health effects that are associated with oil sands extraction. Seeking a clearer picture of what his homeland might some day look like, he continues his journey into the heart of the oil sands region in Alberta, where Native communities have been living with the oil companies for decades. In Fort Mackay, Alberta, he finds a community divided between wealth and tradition. In his interviews with Elders, local politicians, Aboriginal rap musicians and other members of the community, he learns about the huge economic opportunities provided by the development, but also the terrible risks. Some worry about the health effects of air and water pollution, while others lament the destruction of vast areas of land and the loss of traditional ways of life. In Fort Chipewyan, three hundred kilometers downstream of Fort Mackay and the oil sands refineries, Cariou encounters a community devastated-and galvanized-by environmental toxins, a cancer crisis, and a government unwilling to take responsibility. As he learns more about the human price of oilsands wealth, he asks the citizens of Fort Mackay and Fort Chipewyan what advice they would give to the people of his homeland.
- Bruce joins Canadian Gwich'in Indian-Mountie Stephen Frost's family on the annual caribou hunt during the herd's spring migration over the Crow river, to calve in Alaska. Their tribal ways are in respectful harmony with nature. In total contrast, southern-more Alberta is world champion in tar sands, an extremely energy-consuming way to win oil from soiled soil, yet also of great economic value, also to local tribes.