''Fractured Land'' is a 2015 Canadian feature
documentary film directed by Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis, profiling the
Dené
The Dene people () are an indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages. ''Dene'' is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term "Dene" has ...
activist
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Caleb Behn as he goes through
law school
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In Argentina, ...
and builds a
movement
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* Motion, commonly referred to as movement
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* "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...
around greater awareness of
hydraulic fracturing
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frack ...
(fracking) on
First Nations lands.
Production
The film was in a
crowd-source funding drive as of early 2013.
Release
The film had its
world premiere
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A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its f ...
on 28 April 2015 at the
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
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.
Awards
At the 2015
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June ...
, the film finished 7th in the audience balloting.
At the
2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the BC Spotlight jury awarded ''Fractured Land'' the award for Best BC Film, and the film won the VIFF Impact: Canadian Audience Award.
See also
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Hydraulic fracturing in Canada
Fracking in Canada was first used in Alberta in 1953 to extract hydrocarbons from the giant Pembina oil field, the biggest conventional oil field in Alberta, which would have produced very little oil without fracturing. Since then, over 170,000 ...
References
External links
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* {{Rotten-tomatoes, fractured_land
Official FacebookDocumentary Channel(from CBC.ca)
2015 films
2015 documentary films
Crowdfunded films
Canadian documentary films
English-language Canadian films
Films shot in British Columbia
Documentary films about hydraulic fracturing
Documentary films about indigenous rights
Documentary films about First Nations
Documentary films about lawyers
2010s Canadian films