Documentary

Everybody should watch this. It’s illuminating, and gets to the core of what one of our biggest problems is as a species–so often we try to dominate nature instead of cooperating with it, and we do so to our own and every other species’ detriment.

Facing Fire presents a thoughtful look at how disciplines like Indigenous land stewardship and landscape design can support effective wildfire mitigation and management. Expert opinions from various disciplines are combined with captivating footage to tell a story of wildfire risk and resiliency.

Facing Fire is not just about seeing fire differently, but about expanding the ways we can see.  A valuable contribution to an ever-more timely subject.

I was deeply moved by the film, Facing Fire. It is call to remember the sacred relationship between humans and fire evolved landscapes. It is a call to action to embrace the role of fire on the land and by doing so, restore whole ecologies while mitigating the destruction caused by wildfires.

Facing Fire shares a strong and compelling reminder of the wise practices humans used to thrive in fire-dependent landscapes over millennia, and how far we’ve strayed in the past 100 years. By working with fire, imitating its patterns and frequencies, Facing Fire challenges us to change our perspective and realign our relationship with this essential force of nature.