Forest Echoes

Set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and opioid epidemic, Forest Echoes follows Echo and Wild, urban Indigenous land defenders. On the anniversary of their arrest, a community death reopens wounds but also offers healing. Eva Grant is an Indigenous Eurasian filmmaker, curator, and artist. She is a Stanford University alumna and a former Sundance Institute Fellow.



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