A Word from Valerie Veatch, Director “Love Child” (HBO 2014)

“Roll Call strikes at the fundamental nature of the human story. With humor, imagination, and gripping realism, Mansfield transports us to a world in which essential myths of our time play out and we are compelled to reexamine where we are as a society.” ~~Valerie Veatch,Director “Love Child” (HBO 2014) and “Me @ the Zoo (HBO 2012). Sundance Film Festival 2012, 2014.

F9 transplants a forest in ROLL CALL, but this guy’s for real!

Read the CSGlobe online. Jadab Payeng of India worked from 16 years old to when he was 47, planting a forest in an area of his homeland in Mulai that was wiped out by floods. 1360 acres! In ROLL CALL F9 Transplants transplants an entire forest because the author breathed life into the idea–but this guy, Payeng, did it one tree at a time. Celebrating his amazing environmental accomplishment.

Photo shoot, Red Grove forest.

“I pick up a pigeon and stroke the top of its head, whispering in its ear–imagining my words might direct it. ‘Go home,’ I say and give it a shove into the night air. To Pasha I say, ‘Let’s have a roll call of our own.'” –Avery DeTornada