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Fractured Land screening Tuesday

First of all we wish to thank everyone out there who helped to make our First Cariboo Chilcotin Film Fest a huge success!
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Caleb Behn

First of all we wish to thank everyone out there who helped to make our First Cariboo Chilcotin Film Fest a huge success!

And yes, we already started work on our Second Cariboo Chilcotin Film Fest for January 2017.

Maybe you will have a film for us by then. Stay tuned.

The Williams Lake Film Club will show its next special presentation, Fractured Land, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Gibraltar Room. Doors open at 6:30 and the screening begins at 7 p.m.

After an award-winning run at the Vancouver International Film Festival (Best BC Film, VIFF Impact Canadian Audience Award), Toronto’s Hot Docs Top Ten Audience Favourite, and playing to packed houses around select cities in B.C., the film will screen in Ontario and the Yukon.

Since it started its limited release on the B.C. circuit Fractured Land has become a rousing success. Just go on Facebook and look under Fractured Land, and you will be amazed.

There are only two screenings planned for the interior of B.C., ours here in Williams Lake and the next day at the university in Prince George.

We invite all our friends in Quesnel and 100 Mile to visit us and enjoy this event with us.

The Gibraltar Room holds an audience of 400.

Director Damien Gillis will introduce his film and be available for a question and answer session afterwards.

Fractured Land features Caleb Behn, a young Dene oil and gas officer who found himself on the front lines of a huge shale gas boom.

His father is an environmentalist. His mother works in the oil and gas industry.

As a representative of his people Caleb found himself sifting through rooms full of boxes of referrals from industry telling him what they wanted to do on his people’s land.

He held the record for most delayed applications, yet not one application was denied on the basis of his arguments. This is when he decided to go to law school.

Realizing that law alone may not be enough, Caleb speaks at demonstrations where he becomes an unexpected star.

We travel with him to New Zealand where he consults the Maori and to the Sacred Headwaters of the Tahltan people.

He meets with Council of Canadians president Maude Barlow, with Grassland director Josh Fox, Naomi Klein, Thomas Mulcair, and many others.

We travel with him while he confronts the fractures within his community and himself as he struggles to reconcile traditional teachings with the law to protect the land.

I am very excited to see this film. I am very excited to welcome Damien Gillis to the Williams Lake Film Club — and I am even more excited to welcome you to another special event.

Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues, especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada’s wild salmon.

He is co-founder of the online publication The Common Sense Canadian.

While refreshments are being served, you will have a chance to talk to Gillis.

There will be a table set up by representatives of the Williams Lake chapter of The Council of Canadians before the screening.

Let’s all enjoy this informative and exciting evening together!

Admission is $10 regular, $8 for Film Club members, and $6 for seniors (65+) and students, both High School and TRU.