Derek Knowles

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an ecological disturbance in the rainforest canopy. Now, after surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself in order to understand the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her life.

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An immersion into the world of young environmental activists who undertake a homespun tree-sitting campaign to stop one of the largest logging companies in the western United States from clear cutting a redwood forest in Northern California.

The most destructive wildfire in California history leveled Paradise in November 2018. As the seniors of Paradise High finish out the school year away from their shuttered campus, they must reconsider what it means to leave home.

A cinematic window into the world of a California bird rescue sanctuary and the people who give wildlife a second chance.

A woman finds peace during the pandemic in her solitary routine as the innkeeper of an historic Bay Area lighthouse. As her time on the island draws to an end and a return to the world she left behind beckons, life on the island raises larger questions about our relationship to the natural world, time, work, and home.