{{italic title}} {{Infobox film | name = Fractured Land | image = | caption = Film poster | director = Damien Gillis<br>Fiona Rayher | producer = Damien Gillis<br>Fiona Rayher | writer = Daniel Conrad<br>Fiona Rayher | starring = | cinematography = Damien Gillis<br>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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Production == The film was in a crowd-source funding drive as of early 2013.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Release == The film had its world premiere on 28 April 2015 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Emma Gilchrist |date=2015-04-28 |title=Fractured Land To Make World Premiere at Hot Docs |work=DeSmog Canada |url=https://www.desmog.ca/2015/04/28/fractured-land-make-world-premiere-hot-docs |accessdate=2015-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Awards == At the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the film finished 7th in the audience balloting.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>
At the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the BC Spotlight jury awarded ''Fractured Land'' the award for Best BC Film,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and the film won the VIFF Impact: Canadian Audience Award.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>
==See also== *Hydraulic fracturing in Canada
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|4617314}} * {{Rotten-tomatoes|fractured_land}}
Category:2015 films Category:2015 documentary films Category:Crowdfunded films Category:Canadian documentary films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Films shot in British Columbia Category:Documentary films about hydraulic fracturing Category:Documentary films about Indigenous rights in Canada Category:Documentary films about First Nations in Canada Category:Documentary films about lawyers Category:2015 Canadian films