Spirit Bear screen grab from Tipping Barrels
Sitka Surfboards and Pacific Wild present another edition in the new brand of action adventure films. Tipping Barrels, directed by Ben Gulliver, follows brothers Aaran and Reid Jackson into the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, and not just to chase waves.
The film’s underlying message is to help save this incredible landscape from the threat of the passing of oil tankers along its waterways. The brothers have some good ‘ol fashioned fun, making beach forts and exploring on foot and by boat, but the rainforest itself is the real star of the show, and a wise Gitga’at First Nations woman is the scene-stealer.
“What about our fisherman, what about our food resource,” says Helen Clifton. “What about the spirit bear..and the wolves..and the whales. What about all of these animals that can’t speak?”
According to the National Resources Defense Council, the Canadian government is considering a proposal to build a pipeline under mountains and across rivers that could carry more than half a million barrels of raw tar sands crude oil (known as bitumen) daily across important salmon rivers, coastal rainforests, and sensitive marine waters. The Northern Gateway pipeline, proposed by energy company Enbridge, would stretch over 1,000 kilometers to connect the tar sands of Alberta with the Pacific coast of British Columbia.
Watch the film, take action, help speak up for the Great Bear Rainforest.
Tipping Barrels from Sitka on Vimeo.
