Cone collectors sorting a bushel of cones, from the film Cone People

We believe in the power of storytelling

For the people and the lands where our work is making a difference.

Mini-documentary

Cone People

Directed by our Senior Product Designer, Trever Santora, Cone People is a smokey joe love story to the network, the people, whose livelihoods hold the genetic legacy of northwestern forests in their hands. These are some of the people preserving future forests one bushel at a time.

Cone collectors sorting a bushel of cones, from the film Cone People
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Cone People

  • Trailer

Wild tree seed collectors protect the legacy of a burning West.

Official Selection, Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Official Selection, American Conservation Film Festival 2026

Handwritten note: I thought I knew the woods 50 miles from my home. Then I met the cone people. It is a story of deep roots and hard work. Please, take 10 minutes to meet them.

Trever Santora

Trever Santora

Sr. Product Designer

Film festivals

As featured in…

Cone People has been featured by the following film festivals

American Conservation Film Festival

2026 selection

Banff Mountain Film Festival

2024 selection

Anchorage International Film Festival

2024 selection

Friday Harbor Film Festival

2024 selection

Mini-documentary

Wind in the Pines

From burned, buried, to restored. A landscape devastated by wildfire starts to recover through the burial of its lost trees. Meet the mother daughter duo that were willing to let Mast try something new.

Prairie smoke flowers on the MT1 ranch, from the film Wind in the Pines

Wind in the Pines

  • Coming Soon

The story of MT1.

Available for private viewing

Reach out to our team for a first look at this story of a forest reborn from the ashes.