Underfoot & Overstory

The Friends of Hickory Hill Park work to protect nearly 200 acres of unique urban parkland in Iowa City, IA. The organization’s mission statement must be produced, the inaugural calendar approaches. Nature images run parallel, collide and drift beside the demands of group writing and open space. “A film at once playful and thoughtful, visually deep and linguistically complex (and funny!). ‘Under Foot & Overstory’ weaves together a commmitment to activism with a love of looking at the natural world. The Friends of Hickory Hill Park, an Iowa City-based environmental group, work to protect a unique urban space and to define that land, its terms, and sometimes themselves.” – Iowa City International Documentary Festival Selected screenings & awards: Best of Iowa, Iowa City International Documentary Festival, 2005; Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film & Video Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2005; New York Underground Film Festival, 2005; Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, 2005; Athens Internation Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2005