Forest Alert (1999)

Original title

L'erreur boréale

Directed by

Robert Monderie, Richard Desjardins

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 08m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the forestry industry in Quebec and its use of clearcutting. It presents the environmental impact of this practice on the boreal forest.

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What happens

Forest Alert (French: L'Erreur boréale) is a Canadian documentary film directed by Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie, released in 1999. The film is a portrait of the forestry industry in Quebec, centred on its reliance on the environmentally unfriendly practice of clearcutting. The film's original French title, which literally means "Northern Error" and refers to the boreal forest, is also a pun on l'aurore boréale, the French name for the aurora borealis. The film won the Jutra Award for Best Documentary Film at the 1st Jutra Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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