Overview
- Schaller says the team pursued a documentary-like look with production design that feels “invisible.”
- Research centered on early 20th-century Pacific Northwest logging, including extensive oral histories.
- The design aims to ground the period while expressing a lyrical, memory-driven perspective.
- Color choices and layered depth were heightened to convey Robert Grainier’s inner world without overt stylization.
- The IndieWire craft roundtable conversation was presented in partnership with Netflix.