To the Tar Sands

January. 01,2008

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Canada Environment Environmentalist

Trailer Synopsis Cast

To The Tar Sands follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oil industry workers, the chief of a First Nations community and others along the way asking “How has the tar sands boom affected you?” As the kilometres click away, they excavate into their own complicity with Alberta’s rush to develop the tar sands.

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Reviews

Konterr

2008/01/01

Brilliant and touching

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Dynamixor

2008/01/02

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Curapedi

2008/01/03

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Jonah Abbott

2008/01/04

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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