Activism
Director:Christopher Landry
Screenwriter:Christopher Landry
Producer:Christopher Landry

Smoke season is a real season now. Most of us in BC have lived some version of it: orange light at midday, an air quality warning on your phone, a long weekend spent indoors with the windows shut. Canada is warming at roughly twice the global rate, and our forests are paying for it. In […]

A few years ago, I sat in an Ashéninka Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon, invited to listen, not as a researcher with answers, but as someone learning how to understand what “respect” truly means for them. It was not a word. It was a way of relating. Years later, in conversation with Mark Wedge, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]