Among Giants
An environmental activist climbs into the canopy of an ancient redwood grove and refuses to come down, occupying a small platform built roughly a hundred feet above the forest floor to stop loggers from clear-cutting the trees. The film follows the standoff from the activist's precarious perch, showing the physical risks of life suspended in the canopy, exposed to weather and the threat of falling, alongside the legal jeopardy of arrest and incarceration below. Rather than narrating the broader politics of old-growth logging in the abstract, the camera stays close to the practical mechanics of tree-sitting as a tactic: how supplies reach the platform, how loggers and authorities respond, and what it takes to simply hold a position for days or weeks. The redwoods themselves, some centuries old, are filmed at scale so their size becomes part of the argument. It is a small, physical story about one person's body used as the last barrier between a chainsaw and a tree that took hundreds of years to grow.