PONDEROSA PINE by Andraea Sartison | A PTE Production

Inspired by a collection of true family stories, Ponderosa Pine is family history turned legend, turned myth. One young girl bears witness to the rise and fall and rise again of a community: an ensemble of Scandinavian ancestors who inhabit a mythical Prairie town called Valhalla, trapped between the mountains and the sea, with a horizon that thunders on to eternity. At the centre of the town is a tree that sprouts and grows magically from a tiny seed – a symbol of the community itself. Lyrical, haunting and beautiful, Ponderosa Pine imagines heaven as a small Prairie town.