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Directed by Sasha Snow
2015, Canada, 87 min
A spellbinding account of environmentalism, obsession and myth, this film chronicles BC logging engineer and survivalist Grant Hadwin’s resolute struggle to confront what he regarded as an egregious affront to the land—and to humanity as well. Hadwin’s Judgement is a documentary drama about the destruction of forests as well as a story of an individual who tried to protect the forest so desperately that it made him do a desperate gesture for which he had to pay a really high price. (Life Sciences Festival) Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting drove him to commit what some would call a desperate and illegal act. The film interweaves speculation and reality as it explores his possible motives, charting his emotional crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest, a crusade that ends tragically with a mystery—and a prophetic warning—that sealed his fate as both madman and visionary.
