''Hadwin's Judgement'' is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2015. Directed by

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and based in part on

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's 2004 book ''The Golden Spruce'', the film is about

Grant Hadwin Thomas Grant Hadwin (born October 25, 1949) was a Canadians, Canadian forest engineer. In January 1997, he felling, felled Kiidk'yaas (also known as "the Golden Spruce"), a Sitka Spruce tree located on the Haida Gwaii archipelago and considered sa ...

, the logger who protested logging company practices by cutting down the sacred

Kiidk'yaas ''Kiidk'yaas'' (meaning "ancient tree" in the Haida language), also known as the Golden Spruce, was a Sitka spruce tree (''Picea sitchensis'' 'Aurea') that grew on the banks of the Yakoun River on the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, ...

in 1997."Movie review: One man's desperate act revisited in Hadwin's Judgement"
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'', November 24, 2015. The film also includes some

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elements, in which Hadwin is portrayed by actor Doug Chapman.

Reception

The film premiered in April 2015 at the

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. In February 2016, it was named Best Canadian film at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. The film received two

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nominations at the

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in 2016, in the categories of Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary."Canadian Screen Awards nominations announced, including Oscar darlings Room and Brooklyn"
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'', January 19, 2016.

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* * * 2015 films 2015 documentary films Canadian docudrama films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Documentary films about forests and trees Documentary films about terrorism Films set in British Columbia Eco-terrorism Films about lumberjacks Films produced by David Christensen 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films English-language Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub