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The film
Along the Lower Shuswap River, Kingfisher Interpretive Centre turns salmon education into a living field lesson: rainforest trails, watershed maps, anatomy demonstrations and traditional fishing practices taught by the people who know the place.
The approach
James filmed and edited the series as field-trip cinema for teachers: quiet observational coverage, practical demonstrations and clean lesson structure, so each video could stand alone while still feeling rooted in the Centre's forested site.
Project details
- Release
- 2020
- Category
- Documentary
- Tags
Additional credits
- Client / education partner
- Kingfisher Interpretive Centre
- Filmmaker
- James Alton
Education series
Seven field lessons for salmon stewardship.
Produced in 2020 as the Centre adapted hands-on education for online learning, the films gave teachers a classroom-ready way to keep salmon stewardship, river ecology and field demonstrations moving.
The series follows instructors through the Centre's forested site and teaching stations: external and internal salmon anatomy, bugs, the Interior Temperate Rainforest, watershed systems, Splatsin traditional fishing practices and the salmon lifecycle.
The camera keeps the teaching personal: hands on bark, maps, models, river stones, lifecycle diagrams and fishing tools, with each lesson built for attention rather than spectacle.
Behind the scenes
The field days behind the lessons.
A working set from the Kingfisher production days: field demonstrations, forest lessons, camera coverage and the practical setups behind the online education series.
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