PBS Broadcast: June 30, 2000
Synopsis
In December 1997, Julia Hill climbed a thousand-year-old redwood tree vowing to not come down until it was saved from being clear-cut. She lived 180 feet off the ground for more than two years, galvanizing an already intense dispute over the fate of Northern California’s old-growth forests. Wolens’ film is a primer on forest issues and direct-action environmentalism, but most of all, it is about the spiritual journey of a determined, articulate woman nicknamed Butterfly who saved an ancient tree she called Luna. (53 minutes)
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Butterfly (53 min.)
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Critical Acclaim
Through the film there's no narration or interviewer; the viewer just goes along, chronologically, for the ride with Hill. Regardless of what you think about cutting down old growth forests, another theme comes through: passion.”
— Diane Eicher, Denver Post
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