The Issue with Tissue - A Boreal Love Story (2022)
107 min
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.
- Release date
- February 24, 2023
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Victoria Yeh
Trailer
Cast
- Valérie Courtois as Self - Innu First Nation
- Michael Zelniker as Self
- Dave Courchene as Self - Anishinaabe First Nation
- Michèle Audette as Self - Innu First Nation
- Dave Porter as Self - Kaska First Nation & CEO, First Nations Energy and Mining Council
- Suzanne Simard as Self - Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia
- Allen J. Felix as Self - Sturgeon Lake First Nation
- Nancy Turner as Self - Ethnobotanist
- Serge Ashinigoupil as Self
- Jeff Wells as Self - Vice President for Boreal Conservation at the National Audubon Society
Crew
- Michael Zelniker · Director
- Michael Zelniker · Writer
- Michael Zelniker · Producer
- Victoria Yeh · Composer
- Abanoub Andraous · Cinematographer
- Michael Zelniker · Cinematographer
- Michael Zelniker · Editor