Twelve minutes that'll radicalize your green thumb.
In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered people for four days of learning and working in the forest. The observational film follows along as participants in the festival plant hundreds of fig, pawpaw, and persimmon saplings, give away fruit trees to neighbors of the forest, graft edible pears onto invasive trees, learn to mix herbal medicines, and restore an area of forest that had been recently disturbed by illegal demolition work.
Cinematography
Sunlight through canopy like nature's own cinematographer.
Direction
No narration, just hands in dirt—radical trust in images.
Production
Made under raid conditions; existence is resistance.
Director
Sasha Tycko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
US
