Forested Future – A Documentary On U.S. Hardwood Forests Premiering This Fall!
For the last two years, the American Hardwood Export Council has worked with noted environmental journalist and author of A Trillion Trees, Fred Pearce, to tell the story of hardwood forests and the people who depend on them.
“This film is a tribute to the power of nature, and particularly of forests, to regenerate and recover from human damage — and to the people who are working to restore thriving forests and rebuild our connection to natural materials and living nature.”
– Director Petr Krejčí – Forested Future
This project, Forested Future, has just been officially selected to be a part of the BARQ Architectural Film Festival in Barcelona this November and will be made available to the public shortly after! The website for the film is www.forestedfuture.film and you can watch the trailer now by scanning the QR code here.
Forested Future is a feature-length documentary examining our complex relationship with forests and the inherent bond we have with trees. The film follows characters whose lives and sense of identity are inseparable from the hardwood forests in which they live and work. This project has the chance to tell the story of our forests, and our industry, to an audience never before reached.
Over three filming trips across Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia, the AHEC-led documentary crew followed stories of communities that have close connections to American forests. Featured stories come from the Menominee Tribal community, the U.S. Forest Service & State Foresters, craftspeople, environmentalists, foragers, loggers, sawmillers, and an architect on a journey to source sustainable timber.
Director Petr Krejčí says of Forested Future: “This film is a tribute to the power of nature, and particularly of forests, to regenerate and recover from human damage — and to the people who are working to restore thriving forests and rebuild our connection to natural materials and living nature.
“As director of Forested Future, my aim has been to explore a central question: can people work and prosper from the sustainable use of what nature provides? And can we, in the process, promote and increase the amount of land we give to biodiverse forests?
“The film focuses on forests in the eastern United States, exploring what we can learn from the unique history of their destruction and subsequent large-scale recovery, and how people today interact with their resurgent forests.
“The subjects of the documentary gave me many reasons for hope and underlined for me the importance of re-establishing intimate human connections with nature, so that forest communities are invested spiritually, economically, and culturally in the stewardship and well-being of their trees.”
After launch, content from the film will be edited into educational short videos on forestry and the hardwood industry that will be widely shared and available for your company to use.
For more information on this project, please visit the dedicated site www.forestedfuture.film, and visit www.americanhardwood.org for more info on AHEC promotional activities.
