''Butterfly'' is a
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
directed by
Doug Wolens about the environmental heroine and
tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill
''Sequoia sempervirens'' ()''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus '' Sequoia'' in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal ...
who gained the attention of the world for her two-year vigil 180 feet atop
Luna, an ancient redwood tree preventing it from being clear-cut. The film first aired on
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
in 2000.
Cast
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Julia Hill acts as herself
See also
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The Legacy of Luna
''The Legacy of Luna'' is a 2000 book written by Julia Butterfly Hill about her experiences while treesitting in a tree named Luna in the late 1990s.
Book
The book is based on true events and written like a diary of the two years Julia Butterfl ...
'', Hill's 2000 memoir
References
External links
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P.O.V. ''Butterfly''- PBS's site dedicated to the film
2000 television films
2000 films
2000 in the environment
American television films
American documentary films
POV (TV series) films
Documentary films about forests and trees
2000 documentary films
Films about activists
Julia Butterfly Hill
Squatting in film
Squatting in the United States
2000s American films
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