Friday, June 13
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Underland

Director

Robert Petit

Executive Producers

André Singer, Figs Jackman, Robert Macfarlane, Craig Miller, Elizabeth Radshaw, Richard Wolfe, Keith Potter

Producers

Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Lauren Greenwood, Jessica Harrop

Editors

David G. Hill, Anna Price, Andy R. Worboys, Julian Quantrill

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Additional Cinematography

Music

Hannah Peel

Sound

Narration

Sandra Hüller

Contact

Patrick Hurley, Sandbox Films patrick@sandboxfilms.org

We know so little of the world beneath our feet. To most, it is a place of only fear and darkness, though to a brave few, it is one of knowledge and wonder to be found nowhere else.

Based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, UNDERLAND is a cinematic documentary that voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers, and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe.

Narrated by Oscar-nominated Sandra Hüller and with a uniquely poetic approach, UNDERLAND is a deep dive into the Earth that ultimately presents a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

Director, Underland

Robert is a London-based writer and director working to collide the disciplines of geography and filmmaking to tell stories that challenge narratives of identity, landscape, and belonging. A graduate in Directing from the National Film and Television School, he is also co-director of the creative studio Milkwood, as well as a long-time collaborator of the writer Robert Macfarlane (author of “Underland”). Together, they made the critically acclaimed experimental film Upstream, shot entirely from the air that follows a Scottish river to its source high up in the Cairngorm mountains.