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This Living Salish Sea (film)

This Living Salish Sea is an 88-minute 2017 feature documentary film written, directed, and filmed by Sarama. It explores the living treasures of the Salish Sea, a sea located at the southwest portion of British Columbia, Canada, and the northwestern portion of Washington State in the U.S.A.

The bio-diverse Salish Sea is home to more than seven million people and is the ancestral home and unceded territory of the Coast Salish indigenous peoples. Resident at-risk orcas make these waters their home, feeding on migrating salmon.

The film explores the powerful undercurrents of resistance to corporate tar sands expansion in a time of extreme risk to the global climate. As well, This Living Salish Sea takes the viewer deep beneath the Salish Sea and explores its diversity of life.

Synopsis

The Salish Sea is one of the flash points and metaphors for issues affecting the environmental diversity and ecological sustainability that will severely impact future generations worldwide.

This film looks below the mirror of the surface of the sea, to explore some of the living treasures that inhabit the second largest “inland” sea in North America. It looks below the mirror of society to ex-plore powerful undercurrents of resistance welling up in this time when humanity faces a crisis and a crossroad.

Origins

The filmmaker realized that, for the vast majority of people, when they look at the water, they see a reflection, a two-dimensional surface. Many people have only a vague understanding of what’s under the sea, as they haven’t experienced it. Sarama, who has a lifelong passion for diving, takes the view-er underwater to show the treasure of the sea. His goal is to allow the viewer to witness what is at risk if we place short term economic interests ahead of long term environmental biodiversity.

First Nations’ Resistance

This Living Salish Sea follows the rising tide of awakening in mainstream communities as they join forces with First Nations, in resistance to plans by multibillion-dollar corporations to force through pipelines and tankers carrying tar sands oil, fracked liquid natural gas and thermal coal shipments. The film looks at how everyday people are resisting unhealthy development, in the hope of positive sustainable change.

Message

This Living Salish Sea is a film about beauty, about hope, and about the spirit of humanity working together to make this a better world.

Credits:

•	Sarama. Writing, Directing, Cinematography, Editing

•	Wayne Harjula. Soundtrack

•	Colton Hash. Animations

External Links

Acclaim: Salish Sea documentary captures life beneath the surface

Website:  livingsalishsea.ca

Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/230837393

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