A film production company wanted to know if she’d be willing to work on a documentary based on her reporting on how Clayoquot Sound’s War in the Woods transformed Nuu-chah-nulth homelands. In 1984, Nuu-chah-nulth nations famously turned away logging company MacMillan Bloedel, which planned to clear cut old-growth forests — some of which were more than 1,000 years old. Geoff: At the core of it is the importance of old-growth forests and we look at it [from] two or three different perspectives. Part of War for the Woods was filmed amongst old-growth forests in Avatar Grove, on Pacheedaht Territory, near Port Renfrew. Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood was asked to narrate the film War for the Woods based on her reporting on how Clayoquot Sound’s War in the Woods transformed this region.
