Amidst the hip-hop-rock of Red Slam Collective, the soulful sound of Inez and the funktastic flow of Martha Redbone, MEDIA INDIGENA caught up with artist Tasha Hubbard at THE BEAT, imagineNATIVE's annual Saturday music event, relocated this year to Toronto's legendary Lee's Palace.

From Lo-fi video experiments to promos

Director: Tell No One
Producer: Chris Massey
Production Company: Skin Flicks
DOP: Steve Annis
Art Director: Jessica Bernard
Stylist: Justine Josephs
Hair and make up: Almut Gramer
Editor/VFX: Tell No One
TK: Ned Al-Astrabadi @ Smoke & Mirrors
Commissioner: Claire Stubbs

It's one of the last bastions of Canadian wilderness: the Great Bear Rainforest, on BC's north and central Pacific coast. Home to diverse marine mammals, fish, and wildlife - from Orca and humpback whales to wild salmon, wolves, grizzlies, and the legendary spirit bear - this spectacular place is now threatened by a proposal from Enbridge to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to this fragile and rugged coast.

The plan is to pump over half a million barrels a day of unrefined bitumen from the Alberta Tar Sands over the Rockies, through the heartland of BC - crossing a thousand rivers and streams in the process - to the Port of Kitimat, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. From there, supertankers would ply the rough and dangerous waters of the BC coast en route to Asia and the United States. Dubbed the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the project is of concern for three main reasons: 1. It would facilitate the expansion of the Tar Sands, hooking emerging Asian economies on the world's dirtiest oil; 2. the risks from the pipeline itself; 3. the danger of introducing oil supertankers for the first time to this part of the BC coast.

Now a growing coalition of First Nations, conservation groups, and concerned citizens from Canada and around the world is banding together to say no the Enbridge project, in what is shaping up to be the defining Canadian environmental battle of our time. Produced by Canadian filmmaker Damien Gillis for Pacific Wild, This 16 min short documentary - featuring stunning images from the Great Bear Rainforest - provides a summary of the key issues involved in this battle over the pipeline, tankers, and Canada's Pacific coast.

Learn about how to support Pacific Wild's conservation work. pacificwild.org

This timelapse montage is composed of over 7,500 still photographs. I used a home-built dolly and turntable for some of the scenes.

Scene locations include U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco, Death Valley, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Davenport, and Idyllwild, all in California.

A HD (1280x720) version can be downloaded from my site at sgphotos.com/portfolio/timelapse

Music: "Beyond the Dying Light" by God is an Astronaut

A compelling introduction to modern-day slavery around the world. Interviews with slaves and experts. 12:22 minutes long.