Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.
Documentary / 74 minutes / 2022
Directed by Kira AkermanProduced by Monique Walton and Chachi Hauser
Edited by Meryl O'Connor and Isidore Bethel
Cinematography by Gris Jordana, Maxime Kathari, Paavo Hanninen
Composer free feral
Assistant Editor Sam Dellert
New Orleans Film Festival Best Louisiana Feature Award
and Louisiana Feature Documentary Audience Award.