Director of Photography
Ay Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance in the Valley, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border policy. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant worker, immigrant and great grandmother, has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both wild and human-kind. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa documents each characters' fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.
Editor
Zaria Forman creates vibrant, hyper-realistic and large-scale landscape art that documents Earth’s changing climate. Her muse is Greenland, with its collapsing ice fields, lone bergs, crumpled glaciers and slate waters. Colors of Change follows Zaria as she tags along on NASA’s Operation Iceberg mission in Greenland. There, she joins scientists making cutting-edge — and alarming — discoveries about the ice cap. She also talks to elders, learning the ancient ice stories that run through the land. “It’s a really valuable collaboration to figure out how science and art can intersect, and how one can inform the other,” she says.
Producer
Zaria Forman creates vibrant, hyper-realistic and large-scale landscape art that documents Earth’s changing climate. Her muse is Greenland, with its collapsing ice fields, lone bergs, crumpled glaciers and slate waters. Colors of Change follows Zaria as she tags along on NASA’s Operation Iceberg mission in Greenland. There, she joins scientists making cutting-edge — and alarming — discoveries about the ice cap. She also talks to elders, learning the ancient ice stories that run through the land. “It’s a really valuable collaboration to figure out how science and art can intersect, and how one can inform the other,” she says.
Director
Zaria Forman creates vibrant, hyper-realistic and large-scale landscape art that documents Earth’s changing climate. Her muse is Greenland, with its collapsing ice fields, lone bergs, crumpled glaciers and slate waters. Colors of Change follows Zaria as she tags along on NASA’s Operation Iceberg mission in Greenland. There, she joins scientists making cutting-edge — and alarming — discoveries about the ice cap. She also talks to elders, learning the ancient ice stories that run through the land. “It’s a really valuable collaboration to figure out how science and art can intersect, and how one can inform the other,” she says.
