The Oscar Speculation Continues with If a Tree Falls

Posted on December 16, 2011

The New York Times Dot Earth blog recently featured Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman's ITVS-funded documentary If a Tree Falls. The film takes an in-depth look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI called the “number one domestic terrorism threat” in America.

 

Watch the trailer for If a Tree Falls after the jump.


 

The Academy has already produced a shortlist of documentary films for the Oscars, which will take place on Sunday, February 26. The official nominations will be announced a month earlier on January 24. BTB's Bay Area readers should be sure to check out a screening of If a Tree Falls on Monday, December 19 at 7:30PM at the Landmark Embarcadero Theater. RSVP for tickets here.

  

You can also read Andrew C. Revkin's interview with filmmaker Marshall Curry on The New York Times.

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