May 27, 2022
Watch the recording of Scottish Documentary Institute’s Masterclass with Julia Haslett about her latest feature documentary Pushed Up the Mountain.
Read More“In late 2020, I completed Pushed up the Mountain, a feature-length documentary that tells the story of nature conservationists in China and the UK who are working to protect rhododendrons in the wild and in ex-situ collections. Over the five years it took to make the film…”
Read MoreFilm Threat, Kyle Bain, April 29, 2021
With so many people focused on ensuring that this astounding plant doesn’t go extinct, it only seems fair that a documentary is brought into express the sentiments possessed by each of these individuals.
Read MoreGaby Iori, The Well, Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
Carolina professor and filmmaker Julia Haslett, who’s latest documentary tells the story of conservationists restoring rhododendrons to their native China, brings the natural world to the screen and to her classroom.
Read More“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” wrote Simone Weil, a French philosopher and labor activist from the 1930s — and subject of documentary filmmaker Julia Haslett’s first feature-length film “An Encounter with Simone Weil.”
In this quote, Weil considers humanity’s innate responsibility to help those in need, filling up volumes on the concepts of empathy and suffering before dying of self-starvation at age 34 in solidarity with those in Nazi-occupied France. It put into words what Haslett felt while working on a different project one year prior.
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