Bones of the Forest - Misplaced Pages

Bones of the Forest is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Heather Frise and Velcrow Ripper and released in 1995. An exploration of the forestry industry, the film depicts a variety of views on the conflict between logging and environmentalism, including those of loggers, alternative forestry practitioners, a vice-president of MacMillan Bloedel, First Nations elders and environmental activists.

The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996, and the award for Best Feature Documentary at the 1996 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

References

"Festival first offerings provide diversity of themes". Vancouver Sun, September 30, 1995.
"Crash wins Genie race But Lilies grabs prize for best movie". Toronto Star, November 28, 1996.
"B.C. film named top Hot Doc". Toronto Star, March 25, 1996.

External links

Bones of the Forest at IMDb

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
Canadian Film Awards 1968–1978	Never a Backward Step (1968) Good Times, Bad Times (1969) Wild Africa (1970) Les Philharmonistes (1971) Coming Home (1973) Janis (1975) Ahô: The Forest People (1976) The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977) The Champions (1978)
Genie Awards 1980–2011	Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980) Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981) P4W: Prison for Women (1982) The Devil at Your Heels (1983) Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984) Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985) Final Offer (1986) Dads and Kids (1987) God Rides a Harley (1988) Comic Book Confidential (1989) Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990) The Famine Within (1991) Deadly Currents (1992) Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994) The Champagne Safari (1995) Bones of the Forest (1996) Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997) A Place Called Chiapas (1998) Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999) Grass (2000) Westray (2001) Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003) The Corporation (2004) Scared Sacred (2005) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Radiant City (2007) Up the Yangtze (2008) A Hard Name (2009) Last Train Home (2010) At Night, They Dance (2011)
Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present	Stories We Tell (2012) Watermark (2013) Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014) Hurt (2015) I Am the Blues (2016) Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020) Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021) To Kill a Tiger (2022) Twice Colonized (2023)
Short Documentary	Avec tambours et trompettes (1968) Juggernaut (1969) KW+ (1970) The Sea (1971) Selling Out (1972) Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973) At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975) Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977) The Hottest Show on Earth (1978) Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980) No More Hiroshima (1986) The World Is Watching (1989) Stunt People (1990) The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991) A Song for Tibet (1992) Le singe bleu (1993) Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995) Maman et Ève (1996) Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997) Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) Hemingway: A Portrait (1999) The Delian Mode (2009) Sirmilik (2011) The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012) Chi (2013) Jutra (2014) Bacon and God's Wrath (2015) This River (2016) Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017) My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018) Take Me to Prom (2019) Sing Me a Lullaby (2020) Nalujuk Night (2021) Patty vs. Patty (2022) Madeleine (2023)

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