LAND/TRUST (2022) is drawn from a body of material collected for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Tribal Band archives starting in the summer of 2021 and continuing to the present. The film documents the effort to restore the coastal prairie in the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve at Año Nuevo State Park, which encompasses the former site of Mitenne, a village of the Awaswas-speaking Quiroste people. In the absence of known Quiroste descendants, The Amah Mutsun Tribal band is currently stewarding the land and maintaining the memory of the Quiroste ancestors. Through re-establishing traditional land management practices and an intensive plant propagation project, the work is revitalizing many native coastal prairie plant populations. LAND/TRUST invites a meditative engagement with the land, plants, and those who care for them over the course of one year in this ongoing work of many generations.

Guest speakers: Alexii Sigona is a Tribal member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and UC-Berkeley Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Ruth Anne Buetler is a graduate student at UC-Santa Cruz and co-created the documentary with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band as part of her Master of Fine Arts degree.