BOISBOUSCACHE

A film by Jean-Claude Coulbois

Produced by Robert Lacerte

The TNO (Unorganized Territory) Lac-Boisbouscache is a 150 square kilometer public forest located between Rivière-du-Loup and Rimouski in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec, Canada.

This ancestral territory of the Maliseet-de-Viger First Nation is today a common good since, as the government proclaims, the public forest belongs to all Quebecers.

Well, all... That's a quick way of putting it!

Through the eyes of forest residents and users, the film paints a portrait of a territory that has long been coveted by private groups with diverse interests.

Boisbouscache is a story of dispossession based on the commercial uses in force today combined with the absence of any political will.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 17, 2022

CANADA | 2021 | DOCUMENTARY | 81 MINUTES | 2K
FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Born in Paris, Jean-Claude Coulbois has lived and worked in Quebec since 1968.

Alternating between documentary and fiction editing (HIGELIN by Pierre Barouh, LETTRE À MON PÈRE, CAP TOURMENTE by Michel Langlois) and directing, he began in 1995 a series of films questioning various facets of Quebec's identity through the links that unite creative theater and the evolution of society.