A FILM EXPLORING THE SOCIAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTING A LOCAL COMMUNITY IN SOUTH SHORE, NOVA SCOTIA.
A profoundly working-class community with an intense connection to its land and water is transformed into a pleasure paradise for the wealthy…all while the ground slips into the sea. A feature documentary, PRECIPICE focuses on the intersection between climate change and a changing shore community’s response to this global emergency.
It’s been decades since fishing, the engine of Nova Scotia’s last 200 years, collapsed. The result: numerous jobs dried up for independent offshore fishermen. A gold rush on the land fills the vacuum, a double-edged sword of economic activity and environmental deterioration.
PRECIPICE documents these challenges and how community members work to mitigate the human impact: building back the eroding drumlins, creating oyster farms in local bays, practicing regenerative farming, woodlot conservation and organizing the community to buy land to preserve extant wetlands.
PRECIPICE 