The Felling 12A

The true story of how a small group of residents in Sheffield – one of Europe’s greenest cities – battled to stop the city council and a multinational corporation from cutting down thousands of healthy street trees as part of a £2.2 billion highway maintenance contract.

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When an injunction threatens peaceful protesters with bankruptcy and imprisonment, ordinary citizens are forced to ask themselves the crucial question: how far am I prepared to go to save a tree?

The screening on Tue 17 Jan is Pay What You Can, and will feature a Q&A with director Eve Wood, hosted by Lorna Fulton, Creative Director of local charity ArtReach.