Making a Mini Forest
To restore native forests and combat climate change, people around the world are embracing the Miyawaki Method to plant "mini-forests." The feature-length documentary Making a Mini-Forest observes in real time the brainstorming, planning, planting, and establishment care that goes into making a mini-forest. Each story contributes to a bigger picture, of passionate individuals taking civic action to re-green their cities.
Directed by Oberlin-born filmmaker Angelina Lee, narrated by Hannah Lewis, author of Mini-Forest Revolution. The film zigzags across land and sea to meet ten different organizations in four languages (with English subtitles) in France, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. This film is scheduled to premiere at the the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), showing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 2nd.
Screening in Oberlin is sponsored by the Cinema Studies Department. After the movie, we will have the pleasure of discussing the film with Director and Cinematographer Angelina Lee herself (30 minutes).
