The Common Sense of the Wisdom Tree

Animated Film

From the natural gifts of air, wood, and food, to the nurturing of the human spirit, the Wisdom Tree's appeal to the senses inspires a boy to a new appreciation for trees and the interconnectedness of all life. The Common Sense of the Wisdom Tree screened in 30 international film festivals and was honored with 7 awards.

The Common Sense of the Wisdom Tree was designed to support an environmental awareness, education, creative arts and social action campaign in association with organizations including Tree People and River of Words. I designed, animated and coded a dynamic website to support the campaign in Macromedia/Adobe Flash which is no longer supported online. Here’s a little video tour of that site. (The web was certainly a much more creative and interesting place in the heyday of Flash!)

  • California Sun International Animation Festival May 1998 – AWARD: Best Experimental Animated Film

  • Message to Man Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1998

  • Wine Country Film Festival, Napa, California, July 1998

  • Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, July/August 1998

  • Crested Butte Reel Fest, Crested Butte, Colorado – August 1998

  • Rhode Island International Film Festival – August 1998 – AWARD: Best of the Fest – Animation

  • Hermosa Beach Film Festival – August 1998

  • Temecula Valley International Film Festival – September 1998

  • Breckenridge Festival of Film, Breckenridge, Colorado – September 1998

  • Vermont International Film Festival – October 1998

  • Nature and Environment Film Festival, Grenoble, France – November 1998

  • Worldfest Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona – AWARD: Gold Award for Best Independent Animated Short Film

  • Mendrisio Animation Festival, Switzerland – November 1998

  • Cinemagic International Festival for Young People, Ireland – December 1998

  • USA KidFilm Festival, in Dallas, Texas, January 1999

  • Environmental Film Festival, Smithsonean, Washington D.C. – March 1999

  • Green Extreme Film Festival, Saltspring Island, BC – April 1999

  • National Educational Media Awards- May 1999 -AWARD: Bronze Apple

  • Nashville Film Festival – June 1999

  • Chicago International Children's Film Festiva – October 1999 – AWARD: Audience Favorite – Whole Foods Green Screen Prize

  • Cornell Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY October 1999

  • EcoFilm Festival, Lille, France – October 1999

  • Mumbai International Film Festival – MIFF 2000, Bombay, India – Jan 2000

  • Ale Kino – The 18th Int’l Festival of Films for Children, Poznan, Poland May 2000

  • DiverCine 2000 – Montevideo, Uruguay; Rosario, Argentina; Santa Fe, Argentina; La Paz, Bolivia; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Valdivia, Chile; Bogota, Colombia; Guadalajara, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Caracas, Venezuela – August 2000

  • Carrousel International Du Film De Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec, September 2000 – HUMANITAS CAMÉRIO nomination

  • Humboldt International Short Film Festival, 2003 – retrospective

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