PLEASE NOTE: There is a 10-minute version of this film available. It can be viewed here if you feel this would be a better format for your festival. Please view only after considering the 42 minute film. Thank you!

Twig 10 minute version:
https://vimeo.com/clairesanford/twig10min

Yellow streams of sand flow across the dunes in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, where 81-year-old Ambassador Kwon, the former South Korean ambassador to China, plants trees with hundreds of students in matching green jackets chanting, “Save the Earth!” Kwon’s life mission? To plant one billion trees, stopping the desert in its tracks. But as the winds whip up the desert’s surface into sandstorms and Kwon’s freshly planted trees begin to disappear in the yellow winds, we are left to wonder: are these unlikely forests up to the task?