Family Tree (2024)
93 min
North Carolina’s sustainable forestry movement is a rare gesture towards community-based climate action. Seen through the stories of two Black families who fight to preserve their land and generational legacy, Family Tree’s cinema vérité approach reveals the colossal task of maintaining the land while navigating family dynamics, unscrupulous developers and changing environmental needs. Each challenge is faced with diligence and integrity, while the forest itself becomes a kind of character in this drama about its own survival.
- Release date
- April 26, 2024
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Sam Cook as Self - Forester
- Mavis Gragg as Self - Attorney
- Jennifer 'Nikki' Jefferies as Self - Landowner
- Natalie Jefferies as Self - Landowner
- Sidney Jefferies as Self - Landowner
- Edith Newby as Self - Landowner
- Alton Perry as Self - Forester
- Edna Williams as Self - Landowner
- Tremaine Williams as Self - Landowner
- Trey Williams as Self - Landowner
Crew
- Jennifer MacArthur · Director
- Rupert Maconick · Producer
- Wendell Hanes · Composer
- Rafael Roy · Cinematographer
- Hannah Choe · Editor