Congratulations to Weeraphan Thavorn and the team of "WE AND THE WOODS". The film won the Second Runner-Up at the 2022 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest organized by Yale School of the Environment, Yale University.
Earlier this year, the film won the runner-up award in the documentary category at the 2022 CCCL Film Festival.
About the film
As humans fall into a whirlpool of greed, a group of Karen people finds a way to connect nature and mankind through their annual tribal ritual.
About the director
Weeraphan Thavorn is a filmmaker and graphic designer whose work has been featured on Thai public television. His film “We and the Woods” premiered at the 2022 Changing Climate, Changing Lives Film Festival, winning second place in the documentary shorts competition.
Read the full article from Yale Environment 360 at e360.yale.edu/features/2022-film-contest-runner-up-thai-forest-ascetics