Family Tree
CC
Closed captions online
OC
Open captions in-person
Family Tree explores sustainable forestry in North Carolina through the stories of two Black families fighting to preserve their land and legacy. Family Tree’s cinéma vérité approach reveals the vast task of maintaining the land while navigating challenging family dynamics, unscrupulous developers and changing environmental needs. The forest itself and the beauty of its changing seasons become a primary character in this family drama.
Thank you to our screening partners: Black Documentary Collective (BDC) and Brown Girls Doc Mafia
Directors Spotlight
Jennifer MacArthur
Director
Jennifer MacArthur is a filmmaker exploring the impact of our changing climate through the intersection of documentary and genre film. “Family Tree” is her directorial debut.
- Runtime
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Jennifer MacArthur
- Cinematographer
- RAFAEL ROY
- Co Producer
- JESSICA SARAH FLAUM, SHANI LEWIS, NADINE NATOUR
- Editor
- HANNAH CHOE
- Executive Producer
- GEETA GANDBHIR, WENDELL HANES, JENNIFER MACARTHUR, MICHELLE TRAVINSKI, LUCIA DIAZ SAS, KIMBERLY DOEBEREINER, TONIA ELROD, GRACE WADE
- Music
- WENDELL HANES
- Producer
- RUPERT MACONICK
- Premiere
- Philadelphia