Noam Osband

NOAM OSBAND, an independent scholar, Brooklyn, New York, received a Fejos Fellowship in Ethnographic Film to aid editing and production of “In the Pines: An Vérité Portrayal of American, Mexican, and Canadian Tree Planters.” Funding was used to carry out production on A Thousand Pines, a vérité look at a year in the life of a Oaxacan tree planting crew, a group of guest workers who travel the United States planting trees. With the funds from the fellowship, the grantee was able to begin working with an editor, as well as carry out a follow-up shoot to Oaxaca to get pickups. Funds enabled full-time work on the film as we wrote the story and outlined the final project.