Filmmaker vs. rattlesnakes highlighted in NFB series

A Kelowna filmmaker’s battle with rattlesnakes is featured on a Canada 150 playlist by the National Film Board of Canada.

The NFB’s #Canada150 online series of films concludes with four B.C. films.

Pocket Desert – Confessions of a Snake Killer was made by Kelowna’s Teresa Marshall with Craig Berggod.

The documentary tells Marshall’s story of growing up on a B.C. ranch.

“Every child needs a demon, and Teresa took battle against rattlesnakes,” a synopsis of the film says. “In the dry interior of B.C., the South Okanagan and Similkameen valleys form the bioregion known as Canada’s ‘pocket desert.’ As settlers’ dreams of creating an agricultural Eden erase fragile desert lands that support a breathtaking array of wild species, the narrator and her snake-hunting neighbours are forced to examine their environmental attitudes.”

The film can be seen at: https://www.nfb.ca/film/pocket_d esert_confessions_of_a_snake_kill er/ Also in the series is: — Finding Dawn, by Christine Welsh, who lives on Salt Spring Island:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/finding_dawn/

— Opre Roma: Gypsies in Canada, by Tony Papa, who lives in Powell River:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/opre_r oma_gypsies_in_canada/

— Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole by the late Gil Cardinal, shot in Kitimaat Village near Kitimat:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/totem_ the_return_of_the_gpsgolox_pole/