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This short film by Heidi Douglas and Jacob Primo is a political nature documentary. Without narration it takes the viewer on audiovisual journey through the forests of Tasmania, into the heart of the clearfelling of old growth trees, and through to the resistance of young forest blockaders attempting to prevent the destruction. \

Visit: www.tasforests.green.net.au for more information.

About the creator:
Heidi Douglas is an independent filmmaker who has been making documentaries about the logging of old growth forests around Australia for many years amongst many other important contemperary political issues. She is one of the Gunns 20 , a group of community organisations and individual organisations which have been sued by the corporation Gunns for their community activism against logging of old growth forests in Tasmania.

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Produced and Filmed by by Heidi Douglas
Edited by Jacob Primo
Music by Slym-E
Director: Jacob Primo
Production Company: ActiveEyes
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: no language (english)
Contact Information: contact: Heidi Douglas -

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Tasforests by Heidi Douglas view play download login or register to post comments \| play or download Tasforests by Heidi Douglas This short film by Heidi Douglas and Jacob Primo is a political nature documentary. Without narration it takes the viewer on audiovisual journey through the forests of Tasmania, into the heart of the clearfelling of old growth trees, and through to the resistance of young forest blockaders attempting to prevent the destruction. \ Visit: www.tasforests.green.net.au for more information. About the creator: Heidi Douglas is an independent filmmaker who has been making documentaries about the logging of old growth forests around Australia for many years amongst many other important contemperary political issues. She is one of the Gunns 20 , a group of community organisations and individual organisations which have been sued by the corporation Gunns for their community activism against logging of old growth forests in Tasmania. Credits Produced and Filmed by by Heidi Douglas Edited by Jacob Primo Music by Slym-E Director: Jacob Primo Production Company: ActiveEyes Audio/Visual: sound, color Language: no language (english) Contact Information: contact: Heidi Douglas - #2 / Terra Poetica / Gallery \| #4 - Snapshots of the Resolution \| activism \| Freshly Sprouted \| Motion Pixels \| nature calls

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