The Issue with Tissue premieres Sunday at Cinefest
The film The Issue with Tissue - A Boreal Love Story is premiering at Cinefest on Sept. 18 at 12:30 p.m.
It’s a documentary about the untold story about the Indigenous First Nations, the impacts toilet paper has on the Boreal Forest and what’s gone wrong over the years.
The filmmaker, Michael Zelniker said he travelled 16,000 kilometres over a span of 42 days at the beginning of the pandemic.
"What began as a documentary about trees and toilet paper emerged and evolved into a much deeper story. Perhaps the most important insight I had at the beginning was the Boreal is home to more than 600 First Nation communities. So, for me, any story about the Boreal had to place these elders and leaders at the front and centre of our story," Zelniker told CTV News.
"Logging in our Canadian forest -- 80 per cent of it -- is still done in old growth, primary forest, forests that are critical to our survivor on earth."
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