Bob and the Trees
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- Rob Cristiano
- Diego Ongaro
- Christie Molia
- Bob Tarasuk
- Matt Gallagher
- Polly MacIntyre
- Chris Teague
- Daniel Vecchione
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| Directed by | Diego Ongaro |
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| Edited by | Benoit Sauvage |
| Music by | Brian McBride |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bob and the Trees is a 2015 American fictional vérité drama film that won the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Shot in The Berkshires, Bob and the Trees follows farmer and logger Bob Tarasuk (played by himself), his son and business partner Matt (Matthew Gallagher), and Bob's wife Polly (Polly MacIntyre) as they work to earn money during winter.[1] The film, Diego Ongaro's feature-length directorial debut, premiered in the noncompetitive Next section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in January 2015, where it was met with positive reviews.
Director Diego Ongaro moved from Paris to Brooklyn, New York to Sandisfield, Massachusetts, where he befriended Bob Tarasuk,[2] a farmer and logger.[3] Tarasuk and Matthew Gallagher, Tarasuk's son-in-law and business partner, took Ongaro to their work, where he "saw the conditions these guys lived under and how hard it is and the knowledge required", and, after he saw "how charismatic a character Bob was", Ongaro "felt [he] had a story".[2] Originally a short released in 2011, the film was expanded to feature-length with fifteen days of shooting in November 2014.[4]