Fractured Land

{{Infobox film

| name = Fractured Land

| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Damien Gillis
Fiona Rayher

| producer = Damien Gillis
Fiona Rayher

| writer = Daniel Conrad
Fiona Rayher

| starring =

| cinematography = Damien Gillis
Adam Myhill

| editing = Jocelyn Chaput

| music = Edo Van Breemen

| studio = Two Island Films

| country = Canada

| language = English

| runtime = 75 minutes

| released = {{Film date|2015|4|28|Hot Docs}}

}}

Fractured Land is a 2015 Canadian feature documentary film directed by Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis, profiling the Dené activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nations lands.{{cite web |url=http://viff.org/festival/films/f16176-fractured-land |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921081809/http://viff.org/festival/films/f16176-fractured-land |archive-date=2015-09-21 |accessdate=2015-10-20 |title=Fractured Land (programme note) |publisher=Vancouver International Film Festival}}{{cite web |url=http://www.calgaryfilm.com/films/2015/fractured-land |publisher=Calgary International Film Festival |title=Fractured Land (programme note) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907223453/http://www.calgaryfilm.com/films/2015/fractured-land |archive-date=2015-09-07 |accessdate=2015-10-20}}{{cite web |url=http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/fractured-land-depicts-first-nations-fight-save-land-oil-and-gas-industry |newspaper=Vancouver Observer |author=Anja Konjicanin |title='Fractured Land' depicts First Nations' fight to save land from oil and gas industry |accessdate=2015-10-20 |date=2013-01-17}}{{cite web |url=http://thetfs.ca/2015/04/27/hot-docs-2015-review-fractured-land/ |publisher=Toronto Film Scene |title=Hot Docs 2015: Review: Fractured Land |author=Andrew Parker |date=2015-04-27 |accessdate=2015-10-20 }}{{cite web |url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/fractured+land+selected+best+film+viff/11415620/story.html |newspaper=The Vancouver Sun |date=2015-10-05 |title=Fractured Land selected as Best B.C. Film at VIFF |accessdate=2015-10-20}}

Production

The film was in a crowd-source funding drive as of early 2013.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/fracking-issue-creating-a-reel-buzz-with-documentary-drama/article6980820/ |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=2013-01-06 |accessdate=2015-10-20 |title=Fracking issue creating a reel buzz with documentary, drama |author=Mark Hume}}

Release

The film had its world premiere on 28 April 2015 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.{{cite web |url=http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=38222~446634ba-e848-4237-9b3c-72aceddb5263 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021051622/http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=38222~446634ba-e848-4237-9b3c-72aceddb5263& |archive-date=2015-10-21 |accessdate=2015-10-20 |title=Fractured Land (programme note) |publisher=Hot Docs}}{{cite web |author=Emma Gilchrist |date=2015-04-28 |title=Fractured Land To Make World Premiere at Hot Docs |url=https://www.desmog.ca/2015/04/28/fractured-land-make-world-premiere-hot-docs |accessdate=2015-10-20}}{{cite web |url=https://thetyee.ca/Video/2015/09/09/Fractured-Land-VIFF/ |work=The Tyee |date=2015-09-09 |title='Fractured Land' Doc Coming to VIFF |accessdate=2015-10-20}}

Awards

At the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the film finished 7th in the audience balloting.{{cite web |newspaper=Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/05/04/us-documentary-unbranded-wins-audience-award-at-hot-docs.html |title=U.S. documentary Unbranded wins audience award at Hot Docs |author=Linda Barnard |date=2015-05-04 |accessdate=2015-10-20 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.hotdocs.ca/archive/awards-2015 |accessdate=2015-10-18 |title=2015 Awards |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019003548/http://www.hotdocs.ca/archive/awards-2015 |archivedate=October 19, 2015 }}

At the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the BC Spotlight jury awarded Fractured Land the award for Best BC Film,{{cite press release |url=http://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2015/20_BCSpotlightCanadianImagesAwards_VIFF2015_PR.html |date=2015-10-03 |accessdate=2015-10-11 |title=VIFF Announces BC Spotlight and Canadian Images Awards |publisher=Vancouver International Film Festival |archive-date=2015-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018203749/http://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2015/20_BCSpotlightCanadianImagesAwards_VIFF2015_PR.html |url-status=dead }} and the film won the VIFF Impact: Canadian Audience Award.{{cite press release |url=http://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2015/daily/17_AwardsRepeatVIFF2015_1010.html |publisher=Vancouver International Film Festival |title=Audience Award Winners Announced and VIFF Repeats Oct 10 - 15 |date=2015-10-10 |accessdate=2015-10-20}}{{cite news |url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/mina+shum+wins+award+from+viff+ninth+floor/11428628/story.html |title=Mina Shum wins Women in Film Artistic Merit Award for Ninth Floor at VIFF |author=Matthew Robinson |date=2015-10-10 |accessdate=2015-10-20 |newspaper=The Vancouver Sun |archive-date=2017-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109134936/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/mina+shum+wins+award+from+viff+ninth+floor/11428628/story.html |url-status=dead }}