DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

Noam Osband is a filmmaker, radio producer, and anthropologist. His first feature was the nationally-broadcast film Adelante, and his documentary, The Radical Jew, won Best Short Documentary at the Charlotte Film Festival and the Tallgrass Film Festival. He is also a radio and print journalist, whose bylines include The Atlantic, BBC4, Criminal, and Freakonomics Radio.

DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

Sebastian is a filmmaker and Emmy-awarded editor originally from Mexico. His short documentary Toñita’s premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight. His award-winning documentary Brilliant Soil has screened internationally. Sebastián was a fellow of the 2020 Latino Media Market with A Thousand Pines. He sits on the board of UnionDocs, NYC.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Lila has been a worker in the media space for 25 years and counting. Her work over the years includes producing, directing, writing, sound editing, accounting, and post production supervising on narrative and documentary features, television and shorts. As a former member of IATSE 700 and 871, one of her goals is to create a culture of collaboration and kindness around her productions.

EDITOR

Angela is an editor and filmmaker based in Oakland. She has edited documentaries including Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey by Ray Telles (PBS American Masters) and Beyond La Bamba by Marco Villalobos (Latino Public Broadcasting). She edited Dolissa Medina’s Cartography of Ashes for the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and Anne McGuire’s Oh Hi Anne a short film celebrating George Kuchar.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Catherine is a filmmaker who works as both a director and a producer. Her credits include Sundance Special Jury Prize winner Farmingville (broadcast on POV), Emmy nominated The State of Arizona (Independent Lens), Academy Award nominated Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (Great Performances / Dance in America). Catherine is a Sundance Documentary Fund fellow whose work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, GoodPitch, NYSCA, among many others.

MUSIC

An internationally known musician, Lila Downs hails from the same region of Oaxaca as the tree planters in the film, and she will provide both new and original music for the film. Her first album, Ofrenda, was released in 1994, and she achieved widespread international success in 2001 with the album Border. Her albums have sold millions of copies worldwide, and she is a winner of multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy awards, with her latest album winning the 2017 Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal album.

Sally Jo Fifer, Sandie Viquez Pedlow, Lois Vossen

Fernando Martinez

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