Hollow Tree: Film Screening Q&A with the Director & Three Protagonists
Channel: Tulane University Libraries
Date: 2023-03-15

Recording of Introduction and Q&A portion of Hollow Tree film screening event hosted by the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS) at Tulane University on March 7, 2023 in Freeman Auditorium. 

Hollow Tree is the debut documentary of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South 2019 Monroe Fellow Kira Akerman. The film follows three young women coming of age into a new climate reality in Southeast Louisiana. 

The event features the film's director and three protagonists, Annabelle Pavy, Tanielma DaCosta, Mekenzie Fanguy, moderated by NOCGS Clark Executive Director Rebecca Snedeker. Land acknowledgment by Dr. Judith Maxwell. 

View the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/763398145
Hollow Tree film website: https://hollowtreefilm.com/

Hollow Tree recently won a Jury Prize at its premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival. Creative advisor Ken Burns calls it “extraordinary" and "asks all of us to think differently about the communities in which we live and the environments that we must respect.” The film has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the NEA, and others. Hollow Tree was produced by Monique Walton (Bull, Cannes 2019 - Un Certain Regard, Samuel Goldwyn, Sony), Chachi Hauser (The Rat, Sundance 2019). The film features Dr. Jelagat Cheruiyot, Tulane Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and is executive produced by Jolene Pinder, Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy, Leadership, and Analytics Minor at Tulane University.

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This NOCGS event was co-sponsored by the Tulane School of Liberal Arts’ Africana Studies, Environmental Studies, and Native American Studies programs.

NOCGS website: https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/programs/nocgs

Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane Libraries
Videography/Editing by Alan Velasquez

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