Join the BDC for a special in-person presentation of Rita Leistner’s film Forest For The Trees: The Tree Planters, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. The documentary explores the physical and emotional aspects of a community of West Coast Canadian tree planters. 

Deftly weaving together still photos and film footage, Rita Leistner, an award-winning photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker, and erstwhile tree planter, depicts the tree planters’ contradictory experiences—hardship and healing; solitude and the joy of belonging—creating an eloquent cinematic metaphor for the human condition. Finding common cause, self-knowledge, and meaning in their formidable task, the tree planters restore themselves and each other in the process of restoring the environment.