Bury Me in Redwood Country
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Bury Me in Redwood Country is a 2009 documentary film
about the Redwood
forest landscape. It is a meditative look at the tallest and largest trees on the planet, offering a reverential perspective that approaches the ecstatic. The film includes interviews with Redwoods experts, foresters, conservationists, native basketweavers, rangers and naturalists, including Steve Sillet and Michael Taylor
. The project encapsulated a year of shooting in diverse locations in Redwood National and State Parks
, Humboldt Redwoods State Park
, Montgomery Woods State Reserve
, Sequoia National Park
, and others.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about the Redwood
Redwood
-Trees:Conifers* Family Cupressaceae *** Sequoia sempervirens - coast redwood**** Albino redwood*** Sequoiadendron giganteum - giant sequoia*** Metasequoia glyptostroboides - dawn redwood* Family Pinaceae...
forest landscape. It is a meditative look at the tallest and largest trees on the planet, offering a reverential perspective that approaches the ecstatic. The film includes interviews with Redwoods experts, foresters, conservationists, native basketweavers, rangers and naturalists, including Steve Sillet and Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor (forester)
Michael W. Taylor is a leading discoverer of champion and tallest trees - most notably Coast Redwoods. In 2006, Michael co-discovered the tallest known tree in the world, a coast redwood now named "Hyperion"...
. The project encapsulated a year of shooting in diverse locations in Redwood National and State Parks
Redwood National and State Parks
The Redwood National and State Parks are located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park and California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks , the combined RNSP contain...
, Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Humboldt Redwoods State Park is located south of Eureka, California in southern Humboldt County, within northern California. Established by the Save-the-Redwoods League in 1921 with the dedication of the Raynal Bolling Memorial Grove, it has grown to become the third largest park in the California...
, Montgomery Woods State Reserve
Montgomery Woods State Reserve
Montgomery Woods State Reserve is a state-owned park located in the Coastal Range in Mendocino County, California, United States. The Reserve occupies the headwaters of Montgomery Creek, a tributary of Big River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino Headlands State Park...
, Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California, in the United States. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans . Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly , the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the...
, and others.
Screenings
- Opening Night Film, Northwest Projections Film Festival, Bellingham, WA
- Feature, Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA
- Bainbridge Performing Arts, Bainbridge Island, WA
- Vashon Theatre, Vashon Island, WA
- Brown Bag Lunch, Redwood National Park, Orick, CA
- DOCTOBER, Pickford Film Center, Bellingham, WA
- Wild Rivers 101 Film Festival, Arcata, CA
- Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
See also
- Sequoia sempervirens
- Sequoia (genus)Sequoia (genus)Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the Sequoioideae subfamily, of the Cupressaceae family. The only extant species of the genus is the Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southern Oregon in the United States...
- Redwood National and State ParksRedwood National and State ParksThe Redwood National and State Parks are located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park and California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks , the combined RNSP contain...