Postshow chat with director Kira Akerman moderated by Jon Bowermaster

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.

“An extraordinary film that asks all of us to think differently about the communities in which we live and the environments that we must respect.” – Ken Burns