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EARTH SEASONED...#GapYear is the inspiring story of five young urban women who spend a gap year between high school and college living semi-primitively in a remote mountainside wilderness in Oregon. Told mainly through the story of Tori Davis, a teenager with learning difficulties, the film chronicles the group's four seasons in the woods as part of the Caretaker nature program. As the seasons succeed, the group has to adapt to what the wilderness provides and to what it withholds.
Through lyrical live action footage and smartly paced animation, the film reveals how separately and together the girls learn ancient skills of craftsmanship and teamwork and forge deep powers of resilience and self-reliance. EARTH SEASONED has essential messages about talent, compassion and community and about the real conditions for human flourishing.

Diagnosed with learning difficulties, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a "gap year" living semi-primitively with four other young women in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

'Tori's story is every person's story. Earth Seasoned: #GapYear shows how full presence in the natural world can help young people, and people of all ages, discover not only the gift of nature, but the special gifts we can give in return to our fellow human beings and to all the creatures on this earth. This is a deeply moving, brightly illuminating and extraordinarily hopeful film.' Richard Louv, Author, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
'Touching, inspiring, and sobering, Earth Seasoned beautifully illuminates what happens to our sense of self, our connection to non-human nature, and our relationship to other humans when we slow down and use our brains and bodies in the ways we are built to do. This film holds lessons for all of us. A great addition to courses in psychology, environmental studies, women's studies, outdoor recreation, and disciplines in which instructors wish to challenge their students to reflect on what it means to be fully alive.' Dr. Britain Scott, Professor of Psychology, University of St. Thomas, Co-author, Psychology for Sustainability
'Earth Seasoned: #Gap Year movingly demonstrates the social, emotional and intellectual educational power of hands-on, developmentally appropriate and meaningful 'learning-by-doing' experience. We see, first hand, that 'education' means so much more than what is generally taught in school today or how so many educators, testers and much of the wider society define it!' Dr. Diane Levin, Professor of Education, Wheelock College, Author, Beyond Remote-Controlled Childhood: Teaching Young Children in the Media Age
'A terrific video to show the connections of special needs students and the benefits of the outdoor and experiential learning. Earth Seasoned demonstrates the positives of teens taking a time out in nature and unplugging devices in order to live in the present.' Dr. Carrie Jones, High School Division Director, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Science teacher, Middle Creek High School
'Beautifully crafted and often deeply moving...A poignant meditation on humanity's lost communion with the natural world, and how restoring it can revive our sense of wholeness and purpose...Earth Seasoned is also an implicit condemnation of how our dominant social systems, and especially education, can generate deep problems of personal identity and belonging for which our children too often blame themselves.' Sir Ken Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Warwick, Author, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
'I love how Earth Seasoned weaves together the powerful threads of gender, coming-of-age, and the extraordinary, under-told lessons of the power of nature. This is a tender, magical and important tale for our times.' Florence Williams, Author, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative
'Artistic and unobtrusive...In telling the story of these caretakers, the film innocently critiques the speed, isolation, and efficiency of modern life. For, as the film's central figure, Tori, comes to recognize, it is through slowing down, committing to meaningful relationships, and living in harmony with the natural world, that one can discover the true self, and ultimately find gratitude, and love.' Paul Stonehouse, Associate Professor and Program Director, Adventure Education, Green Mountain College
'Earth Seasoned is simply wonderful. Heartwarming, educational, and inspirational, it reminds us of not only the importance of nature, but how necessary it is for us and our children to reconnect with who we truly are, beings of nature. This is a must see for all educators, healthcare practitioners, parents - and perhaps everyone else.' Dr. Eva Selhub, Resiliency Expert, Physician, and Consultant, Author, Your Brain on Nature: The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness, and Vitality
'This film is a vivid example of how healing nature is and the critical role it plays in the social and emotional learning of children. Beautifully done...an amazing film.' Leesa Carter, Executive Director, Captain Planet Foundation
'I think the program is fantastic and important. There's an intense sense of positivity, something which is profound...moving and beautiful.' Matt Ross, Writer and Director, Captain Fantastic
'Earth Seasoned is about human community and community with nature as the healing ground for resilience...This film is for everyone who seeks healing by finding their place in life's larger patterns of interdependence.' Louise Chawla, Professor Emerita, Program in Environmental Design, Faculty Affiliate, Community Engagement, Design and Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.
Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline's demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.
The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. The film documents the story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. It asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'

Documents the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'

'Our students ask: what are we to do? And for those of us who don't know what to say, Awake shows us what we must do, and how we must do it. And we must do it now! We are all at Standing Rock: if we do not act to protect Earth now, who will?' Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics and Provost of Rachel Carson College, University of California, Santa Cruz
'Very compelling. Awake makes essential connections between one local struggle, the health of the planet, and the real and symbolic violence of the Western industrial society. Emotionally touching as well as visually striking, this is an ideal introduction to the water protectors and their cause.' Dr. Anna J. Willow, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ohio State University
'Fear stops many an incipient movement cold. Not Standing Rock. By taking the viewer inside the participants' marches, discussions, and confrontations, this cinematically stunning account brings us face-to-face with the activists' theme: 'We defeat fear every day.'' Charles DiSalvo, Professor of Law, West Virginia University, Author, M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma
'An essential watch...Provides an insider's view of what happened at the Standing Rock protests...Compelling videography and heart rendering voices explain the meaning and context of the Water Protector's actions. This film is easy to add to any classroom because it is segmented into 4 stand-alone parts. Highly recommended.' Dr. Janneli F. Miller, Visiting Professor, Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College
'Witness these strong hearts fighting for our shared future, resisting violence and repression, and see what we are all capable of. Haunting and inspiring.' Will Potter, Author, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
'A lesson in resistance for the rest of us...Evocative...Awake, a Dream From Standing Rock not only serves as a vital record of one of the biggest protest movements since Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter, but its events are also fresh. That swift response, a wake-up call, in the form of a visual poem, is a testament to the filmmakers' artistry, and urgency.' Jude Dry, IndieWire
'Provides a powerful picture of the people who have made Standing Rock, North Dakota, one of the most-watched places on earth.' Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter
'The best film that we've seen thus far about a crucially important moment in history. The film takes us inside this moment, showing viewers a truly unique perspective on this series of events that have completely changed the playing field for everyone involved in environmental conservation, social justice and indigenous rights.' Matthew Podolsky, Wild Lens
'Awake allows us to experience the pain of the Standing Rock people as the Dakota Pipeline is built in their midst. We see them fight a battle between 'greed, fear, money, violence, hate, and oil' and 'generosity, faith, freedom, peace and water.' We hear their anguished voices, we witness their helpless suffering, and we wonder what will become of their way of life.' John Copeland Nagle, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, Author, Law's Environment: How the Law Shapes the Places We Live
'Hard-hitting...intense...With soaring cinematography, Fox graphically depicts what's at stake.' Ed Rampell, The Progressive
'The film urges everyday people and journalists not just to get their cameras out and record, or their notebooks out and write, but to actually participate in the actions first.' Cecelia Barrow, Everyday Embellishments blog
'Awake is a timely introduction to how national movements can coalesce around the kinds of important stories we struggle to adequately share across any one spectrum of communication. The power of storytelling in this context inherently promotes the mobilization of knowledge to do work for not only those directly affected communities, but for anyone who demands that how we share information is more relevant and accountable.' Dr. Kojun 'Jun' Ueno Sunseri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California - Berkeley
'AWAKE is a lovely meditation on the importance of place, spirituality, and community for modern Native Americans. It is also a sobering reminder that dispossession and injustice at the hands of governments and private interests, so much a part of Native America's past, continue to this day. Future environmental activists will find it an inspiring example of peaceful organizing for resistance and change.' Dr. Brian Allen Drake, Environmental History, University of Georgia, Author, Loving Nature, Fearing the State