The Pristine Coast
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Director:Scott Renyard
Screenwriter:Scott Renyard
Producer:Scott Renyard
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Scott Renyard’s Must-Watch Environmental Films on The Green Channel
Over a career spanning four decades, Scott Renyard has made films that uncovered how a baby killer whale really died, connected fish farm diseases to the collapse of wild fish populations across two oceans, and recorded the only video archive of a landmark Canadian federal inquiry. We asked Scott to tell us, in his own […]
From Orphaned Cougars to Eco-Comedy: The Films of Scott Renyard
Before Scott Renyard founded The Green Channel, he spent decades making films about the creatures and ecosystems most people never think about. An orphaned cougar cub project for Discovery Channel that he landed by literally bumping into the producer at a festival. A baby killer whale story that started at a Thanksgiving dinner when his […]
119 Days in the Courtroom: Inside the Cohen Commission on Fraser River Sockeye
In the fall of 2010, thousands of people marched in the rain over the Burrard Street Bridge to protest the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon. After the speeches, Scott Renyard walked a block to the Federal Court building to see what was happening inside the Cohen Commission of Inquiry. He sat in the back […]
From the Chilliwack River to Climate Change: The Pristine Coast Story
In the fall of 2008, Scott Renyard was standing on the banks of the Chilliwack River watching ocean-fresh Coho salmon float by, belly up, dead. He had never seen anything like it. A week later, he saw a news story about biologist Alexandra Morton’s observations about fish farms and disease in the Broughton Archipelago, and […]
From Revelstoke to The Green Channel: How a Scientist Became the Voice of Living Things
Scott Renyard grew up in Revelstoke, B.C., a small town in the Rockies. He studied botany and resource management at UBC, and was planning a career in regional planning. A gig on a film set turned into a new career. Thirty-five years and many films and television projects later, Scott founded The Green Channel, a […]