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Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on timber workers' lives and families as she did on the legacy and future of the trees. But that strategic relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three hours later, she was arrested as a terrorist--charges that were later dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First!, Judi decided to sue.

Filmmaker Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of 68-year-old civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham. Dennis started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen. Cunningham took on Judi's case and after 12 years, Judi Bari v. the FBI finally received a court date. Knowing this was one of her father's most important cases, Mellis is there at strategy meetings, at breakfast, driving to and from the court, and documenting her morally driven, very tired dad.

THE FOREST FOR THE TREES offers access into a unique father-daughter relationship, the painfully short yet extraordinary life of Judi Bari, and a piece of U.S. history that grows increasingly resonant as the lines between dissent and terrorism are intentionally blurred.

Presented by Bullfrog Films
Directed by Bernadine Mellis
Produced by Redbird Films
Executive Producers: Judith Helfand and Julia Parker Benello
Editor: Susan Korda
Music: Jodi Berggren

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