In kitchens around the world, truffles represent culinary excellence and prestige, but in the forest, they’re just another flora fighting to exist. In the lush woodlands of the Pacific Northwest, these mushrooms’ unusual adaptation strategies promote not only their own survival but that of their forest ecosystem at large.
Screening on Sunday, March 9 at 3:30pm in Short Film Block 6 along with To Scale: Time, Freetown’s Ultra Cool Roofs, and Planet Walker (Green Spark Award).
Buy a Full Festival Pass and see all 28 films over 4 days for $75 (a savings of $105 over buying single tickets).
Filmmaker: Fernando Rocha
Running Time: 8 mins
Language: English with open captions
Type: Official Selection – Short
Fernando Rocha is a Mexican-American cinematographer based in Queens, NY; his work spans both scripted and unscripted genres. He is a 2023 PBS Ignite X Diverse Voices Fellow, a 2022 Sundance X Adobe Ignite Fellow, a 2022 Southern Exposure Film Fellow, and a 2021 Fulbright Scholar.
