Q&A with directors Harsha Reddy and Chris Chekuri!
In 1998, young American student Harsha ventures into the forests of South India to study tigers. What he finds instead changes the course of his life. Over the next two decades, he returns to the villages of the Chenchu people, a tribal community whose roots run as deep as the ancient forests they call home.
Shot across breathtaking forest landscapes, with aerial imagery, original artwork, and rare archival material, ETERNAL TREES, ETERNAL MOUNTAINS is as visually arresting as it is emotionally urgent. Joined by his historian friend Chris, the two men embark on something more than a documentary. It is an act of witnessing. In kitchens and on porches, beside cooking fires and in the shadow of the sacred temple of Srisailam, they listen. They dig through folklore, historical records, and popular culture to unearth stories that have long been buried beneath a single, reductive label: primitive tribal group. What emerges is a portrait of a community that is complex, resilient, and alive.
