PLANTED IN 2020
18 min, documentary, Canada, 2020Directed byPLANTED IN 2020
Produced bySantiago Bessai
LanguageEnglish
Short descriptionDespite a workforce in quarantine, Canada planted almost 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests under threat, a young woman journies into the Canadian bush to endure a grueling and unconventional season of tree planting during a pandemic.
Film subjects
Environment
Film details
Synopsis
This film follows a young woman into the Canadian wild, through forests desolated sites by wildfires and logging. Here she endures a grueling and unusual campaign of tree planting. Living in a nomadic camp during the pandemic and working tirelessly to plant thousands of seedlings per day, she divuldges the physical and spiritual challenges of being on the ecological frontier of the timber industry.
Credits
Cinematography : Santiago Bessai
Editing : Santiago Bessai
Sound design : Santiago Bessai
Sound mix : Santiago Bessai
Music : Austin Graff, Lucas Bessai
Colourist : Patrick Maynard
With : Chloë Fratani