Cinema Verde
Cinema Verde International Environmental Film & Arts Festival interview interview with director Amanda Rodriguez. Stories Happen in Forests won their 2021 Audience Choice Award. Cinema Verde’s mission is to provide environmental education to the public through film, arts, workshops, events, tours and any other forum or media; to increase public awareness of environmental practices that enhance public health and improve quality of life in urban, suburban and rural settings.
ReadOut
ImageOut’s virtual ReadOut event, a four-part author reading series with contributors to their literary journal ImageOutWrite. The featured authors offer vivid glimpses of experiences both lived and imagined and represent a broad array of LGBTQ and allied voices around the world. Amanda Rodriguez reads her poem “An Encounter in Downtown Vancouver, Canada” and “The Binding of the Moon”, a flash fiction creation myth. ImageOut presents LGBT arts and cultural experiences, showcasing creative works and artists to promote awareness, foster dialogue, and build community.
Cat Fly Film Fest
Over the course of the three day Cat Fly Film Fest, four vignettes from Stories Happen in Forests were screened followed by a filmmaker Q&A featuring Amanda Rodriguez. Cat Fly Film Fest is an Asheville-based, non-profit film festival that highlights and supports up-and-coming indie filmmakers. Cat Fly was created by filmmakers, for filmmakers, to help connect and build a dynamic community of talented & passionate future collaborators in a non-competitive environment.
Woods & Wilds the Podcast
Elizabeth Garland of SlayTheMic partners with Kimala Luna of Dogwood Alliance to bring you magical tales of how forests save us and why it’s dire to save them. Listen to Episode 4 where they interview Stories Happen in Forests director, Amanda Rodriguez. Together, they explore her creative inspirations, the power of story and forests, and the many moving and inspirational interviews she captured for the documentary.
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Reel Conversations
Real to Reel International Film Festival interviews director Amanda Rodriguez. Stories Happen in Forests is an Official Selection at the 21st Annual Real to Reel Festival. The mission of Real to Reel International Film Festival is to offer a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to showcase their talents and expose the works of these artists.
Dogwood Alliance boosts diverse voices for forest preservation
The Mountain Xpress article interviewing Amanda Rodriguez and Emily Zucchino of Dogwood Alliance and Daniel “The Blackalachian” White about Rodriguez’s documentary Stories Happen in Forests and the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the woods and in storytelling. The Mountain Xpress is an alternative newspaper covering news, arts, local politics, and events in Asheville and western North Carolina.
Speaking of Travel’s Climate Listening Project Series Explores Nature Through Art
Amanda and Allison Rodriguez are sisters and artists exploring nature and translating their experiences into poetry, film, immersive spaces, and interdisciplinary art to inspire climate hope through stories of human connection. Join hosts Marilyn Ball and Dayna Reggero as they interview these creative siblings. Speaking of Travel features inspiring, uplifting, and enriching travel stories. The Climate Listening Project is an award-winning collaborative film and storytelling effort to connect and share hopeful conversations on climate change impacts and community solutions.
Cracking Open and Rewriting Reality
Mud Season Review‘s fiction co-editor Patrick Brownson interviewed Amanda Rodriguez, their Issue #25 featured fiction author. Here’s what she had to say about her love of speculative fiction, her development as a writer, and the inspiration for her story “The Tall House.”