In the Spring of 2018 I was asked to film an action against the Mountain Valley Pipeline that was taking place on Bent Mountain,Virginia. I had recently returned from an international project and had not heard of the Mountain Valley Pipeline or the people who were fighting it. On that April day, activists from all over Virginia had gathered to support the Terry family. Red Terry, a white female in her early sixties had “gone up a tree”. She was living about 20 feet up on a platform that had been hastily built in the upper branches of a towering pine that was on the proposed path of the pipeline. During that time, Pipeline fighters across the U.S were tying themselves to bulldozers, locking themselves in cars on construction sites, creating body blockades or like Red Terry, going up trees hoping to stop or at least slow the destruction.

For the last 4 years I have crafted stories of the families, landowners and activists that are on the front lines of the pipeline fights in the Mid-Atlantic. In the winter of 2019 I was commissioned by The Property Rights and Pipeline Center to film a series of stories about landowners, fighting the seizure of their land through eminent domain for the construction of fracked gas pipelines. Three of the five stories were shown in a congressional webinar, sponsored by Rep. Jamie Raskins (D-MD) and Senator Cory Booker in May of 2021.