Giants Rising (Lisa Landers, 2023), 85 min, United States, premiered as a Santa Barbara Feature and World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024. The Redford Center is also a producing partner of this film which is sponsored by Manitou Fund a major festival funder.
This is the movie for you if you are interested in nature and the incredible potential of our planet along with its actual beauty. Even if you tend to watch nature programs once in awhile or want more information on the health benefits from walking outside, it alone would be enough to see this awe-inspiring cinematographic work!
The film tells an amazing true story about one of earth’s living marvels: California coast redwoods trees, some may have existed for thousands of years. Their history and splendor put into perspective what could be centuries long life spans for us humans now living on Earth around peace and quiet as well as survival through time not to mention all those events that took place on our planet before we came into being here!
It also touches upon Native peoples’ past living where these giant sequoias grow, there are such forests on Yurok ancestral land too which plays significant part throughout documentary because they talk about how were exterminated systematically but today involved in restoring them back again wherever possible.
There are many stories told within it, this multi-perspective storytelling from scientific perspectives right up until artists point of views makes it more complete as well as engaging overall. The current climate’s effect on trees ability survive anew after having been logged over previous times when ninety-five percent got cut down during industrialization era across America will also be explained here; among other things psychologists will speak regarding mental benefits people get just by being near some woods etcetera these days too.
They thought like individuals beings alive themselves did Yurok tribe members see those ancient woods? Yes indeed they considered both canoes carved out from them sacred; besides that, animated sequences showing respiration science behind how our brains are affected by simply being around such big plants would feature too. Moreover an artistic professor spends his time taking photographs of these living giants while planning on projecting full-sized ones three hundred feet tall onto buildings situated within cities so as bring back closer nature awareness into them again especially where industrialization has taken over everything already.
The cinematography during interviews as well when capturing shots trees themselves was done really well here too. If you want to take a walk through magical forest then watching this movie is like doing just that inside your own personal theater! People here try their best share knowledge with each other; from scientists down park-workers even psychologists studying empathy & brain functions improvements due exposure towards natural environments among others. The way editing had been carried out alongside different persons stories being told made me appreciate all known and unknown benefits associated with these kings more than before.
If you enjoy watching NOVA or any other nature shows, if you are interested in conservation, this is the right film for you. If you’re into learning about the history of earth, or us humans even, this is the right film for you. The graphics are stunning like some David Attenborough narrated nature programs such as Blue Planet I and II.
I loved this movie. I would recommend it just for the pure wonder and amazement and knowledge and appreciation it gave me. Thank You Redwoods!
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