Green FF:A Thousand Pines & Conceiving Our Future

A Thousand Pines

Director:Sebastian Diaz, Noam Osband

Runtime:73 minutes

Raymundo Morales runs a crew of 12 Oaxacan tree planters traveling the United States in this intimate portrait about the hidden world of guest workers regrowing America’s forests. We follow them over the course of one season planting for the country’s largest reforestation company, and we watch as Raymundo balances the job’s demands with the needs of his men and their loved ones back home. Through the voices of the planters and company owners, we learn how the industry turned from American to foreign workers, and how planting went from work people cherished to work people endure.

Conceiving Our Future

Director: Annie Pancak

Runtime: 9 minutes

CONCEIVING OUR FUTURE is a short documentary that explores the tension around young people deciding not to have children due to climate change. Isabella, a 32-year-old farmer, and Jem, a 36-year-old carpenter, always envisioned themselves raising kids. Their feelings have changed, however, as climate change has worsened. After a particularly catastrophic summer in their home state of Oregon, the couple decides against ever becoming parents. While they present a resolved front, their parents are distraught by the news. The family gathers around a fire-pit one January night in Ashland to air out their feelings about Jem and Isabella’s childless future, revealing a generational divide about the meaning of hope in a world on fire.