Surviving Progress & Uts'am/Witness

Surviving Progress Hits the US!

Surviving Progress opened in New York on Easter weekend, and crowds were able to enjoy Executive Producer and veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese introduce the hit documentary. The film has been getting phenomenal reviews and is currently polling with a higher audience rating—88%— than The Hunger Games on Rotten Tomatoes!

This stunning new feature documentary connects the financial collapse, growing inequity, and the Wall Street oligarchy, with future technology, sustainability, and the fate of civilization.

You can contribute to the success of Surviving Progress by joining the event on Facebook, following @CorporationFilm, and tweeting #SurvivingProgress to stay involved in the conversation. Check out US playdates at First Run Films.

From the Surviving Progress opening at the Lincoln Center Film Society in New York City, April 6th, 2012. From left to right: Mathieu Roy (Director), Martin Scorsese (Executive Producer). Photo credit: Rachel Lowery

Uts'am/Witness Book Trailer: Picturing Transformation

Picturing Transformation will be a gorgeous porfolio of Uts'am co-founder Nancy Bleck's Slànay Sp’ákw’us photographic journey, before, during and after the 'official' Witness project. Uts'am Witness inspired many people, and  ultimately resulted in a peaceful resolution to a disputed wilderness area, which had been slated for clear cut logging. Now, the area around Sim's Creek is known by it's ancient name Nexw-ayantsut, and is recongnized by the government of BC as a protected as part of the Squamish Nation's Sacred Land Use Plan - which extends 200 years.

In this hard-cover book, Nancy's artwork portfolios will be interspersed with documenary photography that illuminates the story of Witness, which was both about the simpicity of talking 'city folk' to experience old-growth forests, and the complex connections between land, environmental issues, Aboriginal land title, art-making and culture, and of course the hopes and dreams of many different people.

We're now fundraising for our book coming in 2013, published by Douglas & McIntyre. By pre-buying the book from the HelloCoolWorld.com webstore you will be supporting the Uts'am Witness Society and all our profits will be used for Fair Trade eco-printing of the book, engaging the community, expanding this website, and supporting exhibitions of the photo artwork featured in the book. If you are a sponsor or donor intereted in hearing more about this please contact us at Utsam@helloCoolWorld.com