Tamo Campos is a professional snowboarder and noted
environmentalist
Environmentalism is a broad Philosophy of life, philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of Green politics, g ...
from
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
.
He is the founder of the humanitarian group
Beyond Boarding
Beyond may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
* ''Beyond'' (1921 film), an American silent film
* ''Beyond'' (2000 film), a Danish film directed by Åke Sandgren, OT: ''Dykkerne''
* ''Beyond'' (2010 film), a Swedish film directed ...
. In 2022, he directed the documentary film ''
The Klabona Keepers
''The Klabona Keepers'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tamo Campos and Jasper Snow-Rosen and released in 2022.Hannah Schmidt"Documentary filmed in Northwest B.C. to be screened at Toronto film fest" CFTK-TV
CFTK-TV ( analogue channe ...
'', about the
Tahltan First Nation
The Tahltan First Nation, also known as the Tahltan Indian Band, is a band government of the Tahltan people. Their main community and reserves are located at Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. Their language is the Tahltan language, which is an ...
's successful activist campaign against industrial development that would have impacted the
Sacred Headwaters
The Sacred Headwaters is a large subalpine drainage basin centred around Klappan Mountain of the Klappan Range in northern British Columbia. It is the source of three wild salmon rivers: the Skeena River, Nass River, and Stikine River. It is al ...
, or Klabona, in northern British Columbia.
[Hannah Schmidt]
"Documentary filmed in Northwest B.C. to be screened at Toronto film fest"
CFTK-TV
CFTK-TV ( analogue channel 3) is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, airing CTV 2 programming. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is part of the Great West Television system. CFTK-TV's studios are located on Lazelle Ave ...
, May 17, 2022.
Campos is the grandson of
David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the ...
.
References
Canadian male snowboarders
Living people
Sportspeople from British Columbia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian documentary film directors
Asian-Canadian filmmakers
Film directors from British Columbia
{{Canada-snowboarding-bio-stub