Lev Omelchenko & Nolan Huber | USA | 99 min
Co-presented by OPIRG
EVENT: Transformative Justice Here & Now
Feature Film Screening: When a police unit in Atlanta moves to raze an urban forest for the country's largest police training facility, a grassroots movement fights to defend the land. In this startling unconventional and frankly radical feature debut, directors Lev Omelchenko and Nolan Huber embed their camera within the protests, capturing a diverse, decentralised resistance that connects environmental racism, political corruption, police violence and the criminalisation of dissent. What emerges is a collective portrait of one of America's most urgent social justice stories, where the fight to save a forest becomes about something much bigger.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Lev Omelchenko
Lev (he/him) is an Emmy Award-winning ATL and NYC based director. Born in Kramatorsk, Ukraine he immigrated with his family to Brooklyn at the age of 9. As a filmmaker, he is driven by collaborations with cultural and community labourers whose practice is outside the traditional film industry.
Nolan Huber
Nolan (they/he) is an Emmy Award-winning ATL and NYC based director, cinematographer, and visual journalist. Applying doctoral research on Narrative Paradigm Theory and Appreciative Inquiry to their cinematic approach, Nolan focuses on stories about subversive power and liberation movements in the American South.
Lev Omelchenko
Nolan Huber
