The Portland EcoFilm Festival is excited to present three new films about trees and the people who love them, including a live Q&A with the directors of the award winning short film, SENTINELS.
MAMODY, THE LAST BAOBAB DIGGER
50 minutes | France, Madagascar
Director: Cyrille Cornu
The Mahafaly plateau is an extremely arid land in southwestern Madagascar. Here, the rains fall only a few times a year. In these very difficult living conditions, the inhabitants of the small village of Ampotaka found a unique place to store water: inside of baobab trees. But as times and materials change, so do customs, and Mamody may very well become the last of the baobab diggers.
LIFE ETERNAL
5 minutes | USA
Director: Samuel Smith
When a tree falls, it does not die. A short, but expansive animated rhapsody in music, watercolor, and linocut print.
SENTINELS
17 minutes | USA
Directors: Derek Knowles, Lawrence Lerew
This immersive, observational film follows a small group of young environmental activists as they undertake a tree-sitting campaign to stop the Green Diamond Resource Company from clear-cutting a northern California forest. Directors in attendance.
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