Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

How it feels

This documentary follows a community in Louisiana fighting against industrial pollution and displacement. It shows their efforts to hold corporations and the government accountable for the environmental impact on their town.

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What happens

Mossville: When Great Trees Fall is a 2019 feature-length documentary film directed by Alexander Glustrom. Mossville: When Great Trees Fall premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival where it won The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights. The film played at festivals around the world and won more than one dozen awards. Mossville: When Great Trees Fall was shown to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 28th session on Environmental Justice, the Climate Crisis and People of African Descent. The film's educational rights were licensed by Collective Eye. It was selected to be in South Arts’ 2020 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Its national broadcast premiere was on PBS series Reel South on May 25, and on the world channel May 31 of 2020. It was also picked up by Sundance Now on July 18 of 2022 and is available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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