After returning to Hyder and Stewart, I felt the drive to start filming what had happened. Feeling these changes were important, I also interviewed our friends George and Dro to document their thoughts on what was happening. Not having an idea of how this would fit together, I continued to film throughout the duration of the summer.
I completed this project through a documentary making workshop at Media Net in Victoria. After visiting other developing areas, I knew I would like to connect the development around Stewart and Hyder to what was happening in Western Canada as a whole. I wanted to travel to Fort St John, The Peace River Valley, and to the Tarsands after becoming more aware of development issues during my previous year.
Working on this project gave me much more appreciation for the spectrum between documentary and more artistic video projects.
During this time I also began to take environmental studies classes as well. I became much more interested in media projects to present digestible arguments about the realities and problems we face in the future.
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