SYNOPSIS
Gérard Mathar and Catherine Jacob left their family, their friends and their country to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Now that their sons are adults, will they commit to the same lifestyle as their parents, linked to the forest, the land and the sea? What is it about this life that is worth making all these important sacrifices? What does it really mean to appreciate and live with nature? What can we learn from this inspiring family? With great poetic sensitivity, The Family of the Forest addresses these questions by discovering the Jacob-Mathar family at a turning point: Côme, Ossyane and Jonas must make their own choices about how to live. Gerard and Catherine then make an ambitious plan to keep their sons close to the family and the forest: build a home together with their own hands.
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Laura Rietveld
SEE COMPLETE PROFILELaura Rietveld is an emerging documentary writer, filmmaker and winner of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec — Work by an Emerging Artist Award in Montreal (2015). In 2010, exasperated by the lack of diverse and meaningful stories told by the mainstream media, Laura resigned from a career in mainstream media. Bound by themes of identity, family and the human-nature connection, Laura’s work has been published in English, Inuktitut and French. Her first documentary, Okpik’s Dream (2015) won the Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prize at the Montreal’s First Peoples Festival, an honorable mention for the Grand Prize at the Innsbruck International Nature Festival in Austria, and was nominated for best documentary program at the Canadian Screen Awards. Her first music video, Broke Down Ski’Tuuq, was nominated for best music video at the Native American Music Awards (2018). Her most recent feature documentary, The Family of the Forest (2022), selected for First Pitch at the RIDM Forum (2018) and worked in a workshop with Sundance Collab (2021), was nearly seven years in the making. Laura holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and a BA in History from Queen’s University, both Ontario institutions. She lives in rural Quebec with her young family and chickens, surrounded by the nature that nurtures her.
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