FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY - IN PRODUCTION
Niu Forever invites you into the heart of Hawai'i, where the coconut tree embodies resilience, food sovereignty, and cultural reawakening. See how communities come together to protect genetic diversity, combat invasive species, and find healing through their deep connection to land and each other.
AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
The grassroots movement "Niu Now" is on a mission to restore the "niu," or coconut, as a fundamental food crop on O'ahu, Hawai'i and spread the Indigenous wisdom of "aloha 'āina:" loving land and serving people.
ALEX CANTATORE
Alex is a filmmaker and educator of reparative storytelling. His award-winning documentary and video work challenges historical narratives and fosters healing in community. Alex is committed to a filmmaking process that is collaborative, not extractive: that places culture, history, and human well-being above outcomes or market demands.
artist’s STATEMENT:
“I believe in the power of story to awaken us to our need for relationship: to each other, to the land, to our past and future generations. I seek to collaborate with individuals, organizations and movements who work with love at their center, in the interest of all beings on Earth, to tell (and retell) their stories from perspectives that are compassionate, culturally appropriate, and most importantly, their own.
NON-PROFIT
POSITIVELY MASCULINE
BLUE WATER EXCHANGE
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
FORGOTTEN STORM
TREE HUNTER
In his hometown of Milwaukee, WI, a retired urban forester with a penchant for seeking unusual trees discovers an ancient American Elm that miraculously survived the Dutch Elm blight of the mid-20th century, which killed nearly 100,000 trees in Milwaukee alone.
The citizens of Calhoun County, FL band together in the aftermath of 2018’s Hurricane Michael, which devastated timber farms and threatened the economic bedrock of their community.
COMMERCIAL
Texas A&M Forest Service
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
FOREST MANAGEMENT
CAMPAIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
MASS TIMBER CONSTRUCTION
EDUCATION SERIES
Forested watersheds
MUSIC
FLOUNDER WAREHOUSE
EMILY ELBERT
KISMIT
SÉAMUS SCANLAN
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