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FIRST NATIONS: FIRESTARTER

FIRESTARTER

By Jamie BAILEY

ADLER AND ASSOCIATES ENTERTAINMENT INC. - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2020

“First Nations: Firestarter” examines the controversies, risks and possible rewards that would come from exploiting the Ring of Fire, a massive chromium deposit located on tribal land in the wilderness of northern Ontario.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 53 mn
- Director(s)
- Jamie BAILEY
- Writer(s)
- Jamie BAILEY
- Cast
- Frank SMEENK, Elfie GOODCHILD, Anna BAGGIO, Janet SUMNER, Richard NEMIS, Patrick BROWN, Isadore DAY, Joel BAXTER, Bob RAE, Moe LAVIGNE
- Producer(s)
- Jamie BAILEY, Marie ADLER
- Synopsis
- In 2001 a surveying team in Canada discovered a massive underground deposit of chromium, a metal essential to industrial society. Properly exploited, the find – named the “Ring of Fire” – would make Canada one of the largest chromium producers in the world. The only problem: the Ring of Fire is located on First Nations tribal land in northern Ontario, a wilderness area so remote that a billion-dollar transportation network would be necessary in order to set up mining operations. Told through interviews with tribal chiefs, business leaders, politicians and environmentalists, “First Nations: Firestarter” examines the controversies, risks and possible rewards that would come from exploiting the Ring of Fire, a project that promises prosperity for the impoverished First Nations peoples even as it threatens the sensitive ecosystem that has sustained them for generations.