Pocket Desert: Confessions of a Snake Killer (1999)

• 81%
• 1999
• Documentary
• Craig Berggold
• Teresa Marshall
• Teresa Marshall
• Carleton MacNaughton
• Michael Sarell

This personal documentary is the story of Teresa Marshall, who grew up on a British Columbia ranch. Every child needs a demon, and Teresa took battle against rattlesnakes. In the dry interior of B.C., the south Okanagan and Similkameen valleys form the bio-region 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.