Bob Duckett, a skilled arborist, fights to protect a keystone species, the hemlock tree, from being decimated. This short film for the NYSHI aims to raise awareness around an invasive species.
Logline
A mother desperately tries to reconnect with her son across memories, missed calls, modern distractions, and the distance of neglected relationships.
Goal
The goal of this project is to raise awareness around elder abandonment. We hope it inspires the audience to identify if there is anyone they are putting on the backburner in their own lives.
Completed: May 2019
TRT: 12:12
This is a 13 episode video series we edited and mastered for Cornell University.
In part one of the process, join Dr. Ryan Norris and graduate students, as they research the decline of Gray Jays in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Each year, Norris and his team search the park to locate new Gray Jay nests to closely monitor reproduction success rates and continue to better understand reasoning for the Jay’s decline. This research, started by Dan Strickland in the early 1970’s, has shown a 50% decline of this species in Algonquin and has suggested that warmer temperatures, attributed to climate change, are causing Gray Jay’s critically important cached food to spoil.
