There is a revolution going on, in consciousness and in action, of individuals no longer willing to passively stand by and watch our planetary ecosystem be destroyed.

In 1993, on a remote logging road in Clayoquot Sound, Western Canada, over 850 "average, law-abiding individuals" were arrested and subsequently jailed for up to four months for blocking a logging road for 10 brief minutes.

Two thirds of the arrestees at Clayoquot were women. Following the path of resistance of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original "treehuggers"), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were jailed for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's remaining old growth temperate rainforest.

In FURY FOR THE SOUND we witness women's lives change. We watch women in their 70's and 80's being carted off alongside pink-haired teenagers; we hear 8-year old children debating uniformed police; we see women resisting arrest by suspending themselves from trees. In short, we see women talking and behaving in ways rarely before seen.

While women throughout history have been organizing at the grassroots level for social change, the viewing audience has rarely been afforded an insider's look into how women organize and agitate for political change.

FURY FOR THE SOUND uses world archival footage and in-depth personal interviews to create a personal account within an historical record. The film deals with much much more than trees: it is about the dangers of what can, and often does, happen in a society when politics is divorced from conscience. As the story unfolds, it becomes increasingly difficult to dodge the filmmaker's (who is herself a Clayoquot arrestee) underlying question: is there anything that you as an individual care enough about to, (as one protester suggests) "put before anything else, your personal freedom, for everything is on the line"?