UBC Theatre - Our Land Beautiful: An Evening with Nettie Wild

Our Land Beautiful, a multi-stage event, engages with the work of acclaimed BC filmmaker Nettie Wild. The event will include a screening of Konelīne: Our Land Beautiful (2016), preceded by an introduction by the filmmaker and followed by a Q&A. After a short break, a roundtable discussion with UBC researchers and prominent members of Vancouver’s film industry will address questions such as: What is the role of art in environmentalism? How does Wild’s work negotiate tensions between economic and environmental concerns, as well as the impacts of these conflicts on Indigenous communities? A reception will follow.

In attendance:
- Nettie Wild, Director.
- Shaun Inouye, Programming Associate at the Vancouver Cinemathèque, MA Film Studies UBC. The Cinematheque has long celebrated Wild’s work, and in 2009 released a book called Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild.
- Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor in Film Production at UBC. Dr. Walsh is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and interdisciplinary theorist. She has published extensively on issues such as social movements and critical race theory.
- Greg Coyes has worked extensively in Canadian media over the last thirty years as an award-winning writer and filmmaker, transmedia producer, and teacher. He is currently working on an MFA project at UBC around SLOW MEDIA, a decolonized media form that rejects the commercial imperative that has shaped television and most major media over the past half century.
- Chelsea Birks, Sessional Instructor in Film Studies at UBC, Birks’s research focuses on global cinema and the environment, and she was the winner of the 2017 SCMS Student Essay Award. She has written extensively about Nettie Wild’s recent environmentalist films.

Speakers:
Nettie Wild, Director
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