The Issue with Tissue: A Boreal Love Story (2023)
The Issue with Tissue - a boreal love story documents the little known, largely untold story of the boreal forest and the Indigenous First Nations who call it home - how protecting and conserving the boreal is an existential imperative and that unfettered extractive industrial exploitation of the few remaining wild spaces, like the boreal, must be curtailed if life as we know it on Planet Earth is to sustain. Told by the First Nations Elders and Leaders of the boreal, leading scientists and activists, The Issue with Tissue creates a kind of talking circle that inspires our storytellers to speak with intimacy and candor about the issues confronting us all, sharing their enlightened, unified vision that the way forward lies in supporting and elevating Indigenous knowledge/stewardship in combination with the ages old wisdom that can be found in the life of these forests and trees.
Director: Michael Zelniker
https://www.filmoptioninternational.com/the-issue-with-tissue
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Valérie Courtois as Self |
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Michael Zelniker as Self |
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Dave Courchene as Self |
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Michèle Audette as Self |
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Dave Porter as Self |
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Suzanne Simard as Self |
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Allen J. Felix as Self |
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Nancy Turner as Self |
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Serge Ashinigoupil as Self |
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Jeff Wells as Self |
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Tamara Bell as Self |
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Allen Edzerza as Self |
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Jennifer Skene as Self |
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Ginger Gosnell Myers as Self |
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Shelley Vinyard as Self |
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Nigel Roulet as Self |
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Melissa Mollen Dupuis as Self |
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Steve Kallick as Self |
| Directing | Michael Zelniker | Director |
| Visual Effects | Emily Gentile | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Julien Chabot-Paquet | Visual Effects |
| Editing | Frédéric Bernard | Editorial Production Assistant |
| Production | Abanoub Andraous | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Victoria Yeh | Music |
| Editing | Michael Zelniker | Editor |
| Production | Amberly Quakegisic | Associate Producer |
| Crew | Michael Zelniker | Cinematography |
| Writing | Michael Zelniker | Writer |
| Sound | Giuseppe Petrella | Sound |
| Editing | Philippe Carbonneau | Editorial Services |
| Camera | Michael Zelniker | Camera Operator |
| Production | Dave Porter | Executive Producer |
| Production | Allen Edzerza | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Abanoub Andraous | Cinematography |
| Sound | Gordon Neil Allen | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Paul Cadieux | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Isabelle Bouchard | Post Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Aurélia Dubois | Sound |
| Production | Jeff Wells | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Abanoub Andraous | Camera Operator |
| Production | Michael Zelniker | Producer |
| Production | Michèle Audette | Executive Producer |