Up on the Mountain

Directed by: Olivier Matthon Released: 2022 (educational) Year of Production: 2020 Running Time: 84 min & 52 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Environmental Studies, Food Studies, Race Power and Privilege          Up on the Mountain is a feature length documentary that follows three different groups of commercial mushroom pickers as they travel on the “mushroom circuit”—a year-round migration that can take them anywhere from Alaska to California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming—to harvest wild mushrooms from public forests.    When commercial mushroom picking took off in the 1980s, it immediately attracted some of the most disenfranchised groups of society: Southeast Asian refugees from the Vietnam war who had difficulty finding work because of poor English skills and discrimination; Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants escaping poverty from their countries only to be taken advantage of by U.S. employers; rural Am