Healing Forest | Can people and land be woven back together?

Healing Forest, SUGi’s first short film, tells the story of an unprecedented collaboration between SUGi and the Yakama Nation community. This short film brings the forest's remarkable growth and nourishing power to life.
As you watch the film, you enter the forest and become part of a movement to partner with Tribal communities to weave a renewed sense of healing and possibility across the First Nations of the United States.
SUGi Forest Makers:
Ethan Bryson @naturalurbanforests & MaryLee Smunitee Jones @smunitee
Director: Brad Abrahams
DOP: Brad Abrahams, Cody Cobb & Ryan McMackin
Photography: Cody Cobb, Stephanie Hsie & Ryan McMackin
Production Assistant: Adam Whitley
Editor: Camille Durand
Produced: SUGi
Titles: SUGi
Forests Partners: Breitling, Tiger Global Impact Ventures, Life_Time_Foundation, AllBirds x Voice for Nature
iDig2Learn x ROIC x The Lenape People
Special thanks to: Joelle Jones, Chief Vernon Alvarez and The Yakama Nation
Everyone who has contributed to the planting, the film, the drawing class & the swan dances. Thank you for joining us in healing the soil.