Forbidden Forest

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Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton
Friday October 17, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Conserver House, 180 St. John St.

Canada / 2004 / 69 min

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. Host: Kevin Matthews, film maker of Forbidden Forest and board member and volunteer at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.

Film by Kevin Matthews. Produced by Kent Martin and Lloyd Salomone.

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