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Fairy Creek (2025)

Fairy Creek poster
Directed by
Jen Muranetz
Genre
documentary
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 18m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows activists protesting old-growth logging on Vancouver Island. It shows their efforts to protect the forest from clear-cutting.

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What happens

Fairy Creek is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jen Muranetz and released in 2024. The film profiles the Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests of 2020 and 2021, against old-growth logging on Vancouver Island. The film premiered at Planet in Focus in 2024, and was screened at the Whistler Film Festival in December 2024, before going into commercial release in 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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