Beneath the Concrete, The Forest

“Beneath the Concrete, The Forest” is a short experimental documentary that takes us inside an ongoing struggle inside the city of Atlanta, GA between two sides to determine the future of Weelaunee, the biggest contiguous urban forest in the country.

AWARDS

Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at New Orleans Film Festival 2023

SCREENINGS

London Short Film Festival 2025, Emory Ethics in Documentary Screening 2024, Light Industry 2023, Austin Film Society 2023, MIT - Urban Architecture Course 2023, Columbia University - Prison Abolition Course 2023, Vancouver Film Society 2023, OmniCommons 2023, GA Tech - Urbanism Course 2023 

*The film was completed at the end of Dec 2022, before the police raids in January 2023, and the eventual police murder of Tortuguita, a beloved ATL community member and forest defender.