Wildflowers
Director
Trixie PacisProducers
Trixie Pacis Meghan J. Ward- Release Date 2024
- Running Time 37 minutes
- Closed Captions Yes
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Wildflowers is a documentary blending adventure and history to explore the rich legacy of early 20th-century Rockies explorer Mary Schäffer Warren. Director Trixie Pacis and writer/historian Meghan J. Ward lead an all-female creative team on an extraordinary journey, retracing Schäffer Warren's famous 1908 expedition to Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta. Mary Schäffer Warren was 43 and recently widowed when she defied Victorian-era conventions to reinvent herself as an adventurer and photographer. Combining archival research with modern backcountry adventures by horse, hike, and canoe, the film investigates Mary’s complex story and explores timely themes of healing in nature, land stewardship, and reconciliation. By comparing the past to the present, the team uncovers visual evidence of climate change and the forced removal of Indigenous Peoples, ultimately demonstrating that sometimes we must look back to blaze a better trail forward.
Director: Trixie Pacis
Producers: Trixie Pacis & Meghan J. Ward
Director's Statement
When I moved to the Canadian Rockies, I was thrilled to discover the story of a female explorer who, in mid-life, reinvented herself as an artist and adventurer. Finding inspiration in her overlooked story, I wanted to create a film that would shine a light on her body of work (an account of her travels called 'Old Indian Trails', watercolours, and lantern slide photography) and accomplishments (she surveyed Maligne Lake for the Dominion of Canada in 1911).
I set out to tell the story of a woman I saw as a 'wildflower' — someone feminine and beautiful yet rugged and resilient. With adventure stories predominantly told about men, by men, it was important to me that work with a diverse female-led creative team. I was thrilled to partner with Banff-based author and historian Meghan J. Ward.
Investigating Mary's story closely, we uncovered a deeply complex and flawed character whose life intersected with a tumultuous time of westward settlement in the Canadian Rockies. Retracing Mary Schäffer's steps and comparing her lantern slides from the early 1900s to our present-day experiences in the very same landscapes, we discovered visual evidence of climate change, a subtle theme, and the forced removal of Indigenous Peoples, which ultimately shifted the focus of our film.
Completed on the heels of two particularly challenging events for our mountain community and our filmmaking team—the tragic passing of Natalie Gillis, our expedition photographer, in a plane crash in Albany, NY, in June 2024 and a massive wildfire in Jasper National Park (where the film is set) in July 2024—the film is a timely and poignant reminder to make the most of life's adventures and cherish special landscapes while we can.
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