About the Film
The final chapter in award-winning film-franchise, The Breach Trilogy, The Turn shines a floodlight on the most impactful actions human beings can do to protect wild salmon in our current epoch.
Will we follow the cues wild salmon give us and make a decision to turn back to our source and live in harmony with the abundance of the natural world?
Or will we continue on a withering course of mostly self-serving extraction and exploitation of the earth’s natural treasures, as we have for the last three centuries?
This feature documentary will tie together the storylines from its predecessors The Breach and The Wild.
In this final chapter of this trilogy, The Turn examines the continuing storylines of Bristol Bay and Southeast Alaska’s salmon systems in the shadow of potentially devastating mining projects in their headwaters; the jubilant transformation and replenishing of the Elwha River since dam removal in 2012; and the potential for true and lasting justice for the Upper Skagit River Indian Tribe after enduring decades of greenwashing from a major west coast city that desiccated their ancient salmon spawning grounds.
While The Breach focused on Bristol Bay for the last third of the film and The Wild for the majority of its screen-time, the last third of The Turn will illuminate the other twin-tower of imperative action we must deconstruct for wild salmon to survive: Breaching of the Lower Four Snake River Dams.
In the wake of the Klamath River dam removals and with full acknowledgement there are 1,000 cuts that must be healed for the perpetuation of wild salmon survival – The Turn makes the case that protecting Bristol Bay and recovering the Snake River are the two most impactful feats human beings can accomplish for wild salmon in this epoch.
The Turn is intended for a mainstream audience of all ages. Distribution plans include streaming broadcast partnerships of The Turn and the entire Breach Trilogy along with widespread availability in educational institutions worldwide.
To watch previous films, The Breach and The Wild for free, click HERE.