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The animated film Bigfoot Family has come under fire in Canada – but not because of its stilted dialogue or confusing plot. Instead, a government-funded lobbying group has targeted the movie – a fantasy epic featuring a human family whose father is Bigfoot – on the grounds that it “peddles lies” about the oil and gas industry. The Netflix film, panned by critics , centres on an energy company’s nefarious scheme to detonate a bomb in a pristine Alaska valley to flood it with crude oil. Although the film is set in the US, the Canadian Energy Centre, funded by the province of Alberta, has launched a campaign against the movie, which it says “brainwashes” children with “anti-oil and gas propaganda”. “Our children are the key to the future – but they can’t succeed if they’re filled with misinformation,” the centre said, claiming that more than 1,000 people have already emailed Netflix over the film. The streaming giant did not return a request for comment. Created in 2019 by the governing United Conservatives party, Alberta’s “energy war room” is tasked with combating negative portrayals of the province’s energy sector as it comes under scrutiny for its high emissions and […]
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