Friday Film Night: "Hadwin's Judgement"
Fri, Mar 28
|Kelowna Unitarians
Every holiday season, hundreds of Christmas tree sellers from across North America descend upon the streets of New York City to ply their trade. Having left their homes and families behind, they endure the adversity of a migrant's survival living out of their cars and vans.
Time & Location
Mar 28, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Kelowna Unitarians, 1310 Bertram St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 2E8, Canada
About the event
Kelowna Unitarians Social Justice Committee presents our Friday Film Night: "Hadwin's Judgement"
About the Film
This beautiful and controversial story is part of Canadian environmental history and not that well known. A 2015 National Film Board documentary we are grateful to be able to bring to our community.
A compelling hybrid of drama and documentary, this feature film covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an extraordinary 300-year-old tree held sacred by the Indigenous Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and survivalist who lived and worked happily for many years in BCʼs ancient forests. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting, Hadwin was finally driven to commit what some would say was an extraordinary and perverse act, one that ran contrary to all…