spOIL
SPOIL follows seven world famous photographers and the Gitga'at first nation people of British Columbia in their search for the illusive spirit bear. In the challenge of just 10 days, their mission is to create images of this rare bear and the unique ecosystem that it relies on before a proposed oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands threatens to SPOIL it. At risk is an intact and rare-in-the-world temperate rain forest that is home not only to the spirit bear (globally rarer than the panda), but also to a host of other animals such as genetically distinct wolves and to an array of marine mammals. The multi-award winning, beautiful documentary SPOIL gives an inspiring look at the interconnectedness of this coastal ecosystem existing in symbiosis with the indigenous communities that have lived there for thousands of years.
