Directed by Kira Akerman
Produced by Monique Walton, Jolene Pinder, and Chachi Hauser
Edited by Meryl O’Connor
Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.
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The film is supported by the Sundance Institute, Southern Documentary Fund, The Harnisch Foundation, IDA, Fork Films, and Tulane University’s Center for the Gulf South
New Orleans Film Festival (Audience award) 2022, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2023, Chicago International Children’s Festival (award winner) 2023, DC Environmental Film Festival 2023, screenings at Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, The Museum of the Moving Image in NYC 2023-24
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