Silver Tree
{{short description|American filmmaker}}
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{{for|Silver Tree Day Camp|San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department#Summer day camps}}
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Silver Tree is a television and film writer, producer and director, from Petaluma, California.{{cite news |last1=Templeton |first1=David |title=The Wild Bunch: North Bay filmmakers forge a new cinematic scene |url=https://bohemian.com/papers/sonoma/08.24.05/filmmakers-0534.html |access-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602135201/https://bohemian.com/papers/sonoma/08.24.05/filmmakers-0534.html |archive-date=2 June 2022 |work=North Bay Bohemian |publisher=Metro Publishing Inc. |date=August 24, 2005}}[http://www.theaviarymovie.com/silverblog.htm "The movie the airline industry doesn't want you to see", Dane Golden, Argus Courier, April 5, 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517004753/http://www.theaviarymovie.com/silverblog.htm |date=May 17, 2006 }}
Early life
Silver Tree was born to Susan (née Fullam) and Scott Tree in Sonoma County California{{cite news |last1=Parmer |first1=Janet |title=Airline employee shot 'Aviary' with small budget, lofty aspirations |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/airline-employee-shot-aviary-with-small-budget-lofty-aspirations/ |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=Santa Rosa Press Democrat |date=19 August 2005 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601081355/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/airline-employee-shot-aviary-with-small-budget-lofty-aspirations/ |url-status=live }} and raised in Petaluma.{{cite news |last1=von Busack |first1=Richard |title=Local Color: 'Deep Dark Canyon' a modern Western set in Sonoma County |url=https://bohemian.com/local-color-1/ |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=North Bay Bohemian |publisher=Metro Publishing Inc. |date=17 October 2012 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601150418/https://bohemian.com/local-color-1/ |url-status=live }}
Tree attended El Molino High School in Forestville, California and Nonesuch School in Sebastopol, California. She attended Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University where she majored in biochemistry.
Career
Tree was an airline flight attendant based in San Francisco when she was involuntarily furloughed for six months in the wake of the September 11 attacks. During the furlough, she began co-writing with Abraham Levy the screenplay for The Aviary, a film about four flight attendants who live together in an apartment.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Dan |title=Drama 'Deep Dark Canyon' starts with hunting accident |url=https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/drama-deep-dark-canyon-starts-with-hunting-accident/ |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=Petaluma Argus-Courier |date=20 October 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Torassa |first1=Ulysses |title=Petaluma flight attendant's film ready for lift-off at the Lark |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Petaluma-flight-attendant-s-film-ready-for-2622317.php |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=SFGATE |date=15 July 2005 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601081355/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Petaluma-flight-attendant-s-film-ready-for-2622317.php |url-status=live }} Tree and Levy self-financed and distributed the $25,000 film.
Personal life
Tree was one of the guests at Meghan Markle{{'}}s wedding to Prince Harry at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018.{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/royal-wedding-2018-guest-list-the-friends-and-family-of-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-who-had-the-best-seats-in-the-house-a3843766.html|title=Royal wedding 2018 guest list|date=20 May 2018|publisher=Evening Standard|access-date=10 April 2021|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411003206/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/royal-wedding-2018-guest-list-the-friends-and-family-of-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-who-had-the-best-seats-in-the-house-a3843766.html|url-status=live}}
Filmography
= Films =
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!Year(s) !Title !Role !Notes |
| 2013
|Deep Dark Canyon |Writer/director |
| 2005
|Writer/producer ! |
= Television =
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External links
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Category:Film producers from California
Category:American television directors
Category:People from Petaluma, California
Category:American women television directors
Category:American television producers
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