Greetings From Free Forests

Synopsis

Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia – Greetings From Free Forests encounters stories that emerge from the land itself; measuring the gap between an event of popular resistance and its lingering remains within a foreclosed present.

Director Biography

Ian Soroka (b. 1987) works in nonfiction film and video. He studied cinema and philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in Prague at FAMU, and completed an M.S. in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT. Ian is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Princess Grace FoundationUSA Award recipient, and a Fulbright Fellow in Slovenia, where he was a guest researcher at the Slovenian National Film Archives. His work has screened internationally in festival, gallery and museum contexts including: DocLisboa, Art of The Real at Film Society of Lincoln Center, Dok.Fest München, Curtas: Vila do Conde, Rencontres Internationales, and Kinoteka, Ljubljana. Ian is from western Colorado and is based in the San Francisco Bay area.