Director:Jorrit Van Der Kooi
Producer:Jorrit Van Der Kooi
Story:Sonia Battaille
Composer:Thomas Van Der Burg
As Little Girl:Royse Ann Gilliland
As Mom:Kerry Stichweh
As Waitress:Kathy Mills

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 […]

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 […]