The Maple Cutter w/ Sentinels

Lynn M. Thomas, Danny Hoffman, Michael Sanderson | US | 2022 | 46 min

In 2018, the Maple Fire burned more than 3000 acres of Washington State's Olympic National Forest. Federal prosecutors alleged that a local man, Justin Wilke, started the blaze while removing a beehive from a tree he planned to steal. The Maple Cutter explores Justin's complex relationship with the woods and the equally complex way that Justin explains that relationship - to the world and to himself.

Sentinels

Derek Knowles & Lawrence Lerew | US | 2022 | 18 min

Sentinels is an immersive observational film that follows a group of young environmental activists who undertake a homespun tree-sitting campaign to stop one of the largest logging companies on the west coast from clear cutting a redwood forest in Northern California.