Join us for a special screening of the award-winning ethnographic film A Thousand Pines followed by a Q&A with acclaimed filmmaker and anthropologist Noam Osband.
About A Thousand Pines: The United States is the world's largest producer of wood and paper products, and each year the industry relies almost entirely on foreign guest workers who plant over one billion trees to replenish harvested forests. This intimate documentary explores the hidden world of guest workers regrowing America's forests and the challenges the workers and their families face.
Pizza and attendance vouchers will be provided. All are welcome!
Noam Osband is a filmmaker, radio producer, and anthropologist. His first feature was the nationally broadcast film Adelante, and his documentary The Radical Jew won Best Short Doc at the Charlotte and Tallgrass Film Festivals. He is also a radio and print journalist, whose bylines include The Atlantic, BBC4, Criminal, and Freakonomics Radio.
Anthropology in Action is a speaker series highlighting the diversity of work being done by anthropologists today, providing an opportunity for students to meet and learn from practicing professionals. Applied anthropologists use the people-centered methods of anthropology to better understand all kinds of communities, inform policy, and act on real-world issues.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences; the Department of Communications Media; the Social Equity and Title IX Office; the Sustainability Studies Program; the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; and IUP Lively Arts.