International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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

Marshall Curry, USA, 2011, color, video, 85'

Synopsis

Focusing on Oregon-based activist Daniel McGowan, If a Tree Falls relates the tale of a mild-mannered, middle-class citizen driven to extremes and brought to trial on charges of terrorism for his participation in ELF-related arson plots. Detailing activists' past disillusionment with peaceful public protestand the police brutality and inertia that often followed the film poses difficult questions about the possibility of effecting change from either within or without the system, and examines the changed stakes for revolutionaries today in a world fixated on branding all dissenters as terrorists.

Credits

Director
Marshall Curry
Co-director
Sam Cullman
Production
Marshall Curry for Marshall Curry Productions, LLC

Selected for

DOCS 2011

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Genre: Human Interest / Social Issues
Genre: Politics / Society
Genre: Nature / Environment
Country of Production: USA
Year production: 2011
Length: more than 60

Awards

World Premiere: Sundance Documentary Competition 2011

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