Forest Alert

Forest Alert (French: L'Erreur boréale) is a Canadian documentary film directed by Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie, released in 1999.^[1] The film is a portrait of the forestry industry in Quebec, centred on its reliance on the environmentally unfriendly practice of clearcutting.^[2]

Forest Alert
French	L'Erreur boréale
Directed by	Richard Desjardins Robert Monderie
Written by	Richard Desjardins
Produced by	Éric Michel Bernadette Payeur
Cinematography	Jacques Leduc
Edited by	Alain Belhumeur
Music by	Benoît Groulx Jean-François Groulx
Production companies	National Film Board of Canada ACPAV
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film's original French title, which literally means "Northern Error" and refers to the boreal forest, is also a pun on l'aurore boréale, the French name for the aurora borealis.^[2]

The film won the Jutra Award for Best Documentary Film at the 1st Jutra Awards.^[3]