A Thousand Pines

  Directed by: Noam Osband & Sebastián Díaz Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2023 Running Time: 60 min Language: English, Spanish Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Race Power and Privilege, Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, Immigration                 A Thousand Pines shows the lives of migrants who depend on the controversial guest worker visa program, following a crew of workers from Oaxaca, Mexico over the course of a season planting trees throughout the United States. The crew struggles to balance the job’s physical demands and its extreme isolation while remaining connected to their families back home. As the season progresses, they become a small family, cooking and caring for each other in order to endure the punishing work.  The film centers on the crew foreman, Raymundo Morales, who is in his 19th season working for the largest reforestation company in the US. When he began, he was single and had few responsib