NFB Collection
Forbidden Forest
Film: Documentary
Direction: Kevin W. Matthews
Production: Kent MartinLloyd Salomone
Script: Jonathan CollicottKevin W. Matthews
A co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and Timber Colony Inc.
The government of New Brunswick has handed the management of millions of acre of Crown land to six multinational corporations. In Forbidden Forest, we meet two very different men united by a passion to save the forest and to bring some of this public land under community control.
Jean Guy Comeau is an Acadian woodlot owner who fought his way out of poverty and retired after nearly 40 years in a pulp mill. Born to a wealthy family, Francis Wishart is a painter and winemaker with homes in France and New Brunswick.
Together, they travel to Finland--home of UPM-Kymmene, one of the largest licence holders of New Brunswick Crown lands--to urge company officials to practise responsible forestry. And they go head-to-head with the New Brunswick government in an effort to secure a new, community-based forestry policy--one that is environmentally sustainable and that produces more jobs than the highly capital-intensive, mechanized techniques used today.
Forbidden Forest is a tale of corporate greed, lax government oversight and people passionate about the places they love.
The DVD features a French and English language option.
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Subject categories
- Francophone Communities > Acadia
- Forestry > Atlantic RegionConservation and ReforestationForest IndustriesLumberjacksSocial Action
- Environment and Conservation > Forests
- Foreign Countries > Scandinavia
Credits
- participant
- Jean Guy Comeau
- Francis Wishart
- director
- Kevin W. Matthews
- producer
- Kent Martin
- Lloyd Salomone
- writer
- Jonathan Collicott
- Kevin W. Matthews
- photography
- Jonathan Collicott
- Kevin W. Matthews
- picture editor
- Jonathan Collicott
- Kevin W. Matthews
- online editor
- Steve Cooke
- accounting
- Gregg Alan
- Alicia Darrah
- Lloyd Salomone
- MacDonald & Spacek Chartered Accountants
- archival researcher
- Roberta Nixon
- marketing
- Roberta Nixon
- Lloyd Salomone
- Delia Smith
- publicity
- Roberta Nixon
- Lloyd Salomone
- Delia Smith
- narration
- Kevin W. Matthews
- production manager
- Kevin W. Matthews
- Lloyd Salomone
- production stills
- Kevin W. Matthews
- Glen Ross
- researcher
- Jonathan Collicott
- Kevin W. Matthews
- rights clearances
- Roberta Nixon
- Lloyd Salomone
- technical support
- John Christenson
- Alan Edwards
- Rodrigo Gutierrez
- title animation
- Matthew Murray
- translation
- Marianne Eiselt
- José Ouimet
- Gilles Wilson
- transcription
- Victoria Clark
- Marianne Eiselt
- Dean Gaudet
- John Marshall
- Sebastien MacLean
- Roberta Nixon
- Hellga Rennke
- Gilles Wilson
- studio clerk
- Stephanie Coolen
- Vanessa Larsen
- technical coordinator
- Patricia Coughran
- marketing manager
- Philip Moscovitch
- program administrator
- John William Lutz