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June
From: IWTF
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2025 3:50 PM
Subject: Press Release “Trouble in the Headwaters” documentary screening & discussion, Mary Irwin Theater, Kelowna, Sept.4, 2025 with IWT
Dear Healthy Watershed Coalition Leadership Team and Members,
Please find attached the Press Release, a Poster of the Kelowna screening event, and a poster of the cities, dates & times of the screening tour of: ‘Trouble in the Headwaters’. This screening brings awareness and discussion about the downfalls of multi-land use practices, like logging, in our community watersheds and primary forests. Please circulate to all in your organization, groups, family and friends.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 1 2025
BC Documentary and Discussion Brings Communities Together by Making the Connection between Perilous Forestry and Flooding.
Kelowna, BC –On September 4th, community groups across the Okanagan will host a screening and panel discussion to ignite awareness about the threat industrial logging poses to watersheds and primary forests.
Trouble in the Headwaters, 25-minute documentary by filmmaker Dan Pierce, examines the disastrous 2018 flood event in Grand Forks, BC and the hydrological connection to clearcut logging in the Kettle River Watershed. This was not a singular event, and could happen in any interior watershed, including those in the Okanagan.
The film features Dr. Younes Alila, an engineer and professor of forest hydrology at the UBC Faculty of Forestry who has studied the connection between forestry and flooding for decades. His groundbreaking peer-reviewed science has exposed how government and industry have dramatically underestimated the risk of flooding caused by clearcutting. Pierce and Alila will both be in attendance at all of the screening events on the documentary tour.
The tour will stop in Kelowna on September 4th at 6:15pm at the Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston. Admission is free.
Join Pierce and Alila with other distinguished panelists at 6:15 in the Mary Irwin lobby (Rotary Centre for the Arts) in Kelowna for a reception before the film and after the film for a fulsome panel discussion and Q&A. Other speakers include:
Sonia Furstenau, former Green party leader, MLA, environmentalist, campaigner
Mike Morris, former BC Solicitor General, former United Party Minister of Public Safety and conservationist
David Gill, Registered Professional Forester, Westbank First Nation
Join us next Thursday, Sept.4th in Kelowna at the Rotary Centre for the Arts. Here is the weblink for the Kelowna event: Trouble in the Headwaters Film Screening | The Box Office
Information on screenings in other BC locations is listed here, along with contact information for community hosts and event links. Please contact the host organization of the film director to schedule a media interview.
For more information, please contact:
Taryn Skalbania, Interior Watershed Task Force, Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance, (director)
iwtf@gmail.com I 250.767.6456 I https://www.iwtf.ca/
Daniel J. Pierce, Ramshackle Pictures (film director) daniel@ramshackle.ca | 778.320.8789 | ramshackle.ca
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Thank you,
Leadership Team.
The Interior Watershed Task Force is a volunteer coalition of community groups and individuals based in Interior
BC, concerned about the state of our watersheds, forests and biodiversity. We apply science and personal
experience to inform and advocate for the protection of watersheds and primary forests, and for the recovery of
degraded forests. IWTF is committed to Canada’s truth and reconciliation journey. Our advocacy respects and
recognizes the rights of BC’s First Nations to their ancestral territories on which we live and work.
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Preview YouTube video Trouble in the Headwaters | Trailer
Preview YouTube video The hidden impacts of clear-cut logging, revealed
