Leila Conners founded Tree Media to tell stories that support and sustain human and nature well-being. Leila has helmed over 100 media projects from the inception of Tree Media and has directed 6 documentary films most recent, Legion 44, and is in the process of developing her 7th, Indra's Web. Leila has premiered twice in Cannes International Film festival as well as many other festivals around the world. Previous to Legion 44, , Leila directed Ice on Fire with Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Arrow of Time with President Mikhail Gorbachev that premiered at the Zurich International Film Festival. Prior to that, she directed We the People 2.0, a feature doc about community and nature rights that premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. Leila has also directed short film series for a total of 18 short films most recently with Kate Raworth on Doughnut Economics. Series include Digital Wampum - Testimony of the Iroquois; Driving Fashion Forward with Amber Valletta for Lexus; Green World Rising narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio; and 2 shorts on Biomimicry with Janine Benyus. The first, Biomimicry, premiered at SXSWeco. Leila created a documentary film on the explosion of urban farming in Detroit called Urban Roots. Leila’s first feature-length documentary, The 11th Hour, was co-created with Leonardo DiCaprio and also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Leila has collaborated with global institutions, organizations and media companies among them NASA, the United Nations, nation states, NOAA, the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, the Pentagon, HBO, the Smithsonian, Harvard University, Green Cross International, other Hollywood studios. Leila is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recently awarded Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from the American University in Paris. Leila has also been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Yomiuri Shimbun and Wired Magazine among others. Her article on “Death and American Culture” was published in War, Media and Propaganda, published by Rowman and Littlefield. Leila is often invited to speak on issues of sustainability and the environment and has served on panels nationally and internationally.