DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST

Project: Animated sequences for documentary, Daughters of the Forest, which aired on PBS (Global Voices) in 2016

Year: 2015

Description: The director approached me to create short animated sequences in my silhouette style to tie together scenes. I also created animated motion graphics and titles. Characters and scenery cut out of paper and animated using Dragonframe for motion capture. Motion graphics created in Adobe After Effects. Edited in Adobe Premiere.

Synopsis: (from http://daughtersoftheforest.com/) DAUGHTERS of the FOREST tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and forge a better future for themselves. Set in the untamed wilds of the Mbaracayú Reserve in rural Paraguay, this intimate verité documentary offers a rare glimpse of a disappearing world where timid girls grow into brave young women even as they are transformed by their unlikely friendships with one another. Filmed over the course of five years, we follow the girls from their humble homes in indigenous villages through the year after their graduation to see exactly how their revolutionary education has and will continue to impact their future lives.