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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

  • Director(s):
    Marshall Curry
    Producer(s):
    Stephen Bannatyne, Nick Fraser, Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Marcia Carver
    • United States
    • 2011
    • 85 min
    • HDCAM 1080/23.98p
    • English

George W Bush’s government called them the number one domestic terrorism threat. Others called them tree huggers. For a number of years from the mid 90s, the Earth Liberation Front conducted a campaign of arson attacks against a wide range of companies they considered a threat to the environment, including timber factories, an SUV dealership and a ski lodge. The fact that no one was ever hurt did little to deter the tenacity of investigators determined to track the culprits down. Former member Daniel McGowan had long since hung up his ELF hat, and settled down to work in a Manhattan charity, when he was arrested one day by the FBI. He’s now under house arrest, facing life in prison. Through the story of McGowan’s activism, radicalization, and eventual disenchantment, and with the use of remarkable archive, director Marshall Curry shines a light on a battle in which good and evil are far from clearly defined.

This film will discussed in the following session: Meet the Critics

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Official Website:
www.ifatreefallsfilm.com
Festivals:
Sundance Film Festival 2011
Awards:
U.S. Documentary Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival

Credits

Co-Director:
Sam Cullman 

Director Filmography

  • 2009, Racing Dreams
  • 2005, Street Fight

Contact

Jan Rofekamp

President and CEO

Films Transit International

janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

+1 5148443358

Screening

09 Jun 15:30

Library Theatre
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11 Jun 13:35

Showroom 3
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