Saving Buttonhook Forest

Joe Plante is a filmmaker, producer, and third-generation storyteller who owns New Media Storytellers, a New Hampshire–based studio devoted to stories that heal the heart, inspire the soul, and care for the earth. A journalist by lineage and musician by instinct, Joe carries the full creative stack on his productions—directing, shooting, editing, scoring, and sound—so that every frame and every note serves a single, coherent vision.

For nearly three decades, New Media Storytellers has crafted authentic, cinematic campaigns for mission-driven organizations, from grassroots causes to global initiatives. Joe specializes in documentary-style storytelling and cross-cultural narratives, earning the kind of trust that lets him embed inside a community and capture its truth from the inside out. Founded in 1998 with his late father, award-winning journalist and musician Bill Plante, the studio respects storytelling as humanity’s oldest medicine—a tool for connection, healing, and meaningful change. Bill’s legacy lives on in that commitment, and in the causes that make our world better.

His film for Save Buttonhook Forest gives voice to the Indigenous youth, elders, and advocates fighting to protect a sacred ceremonial landscape where the ancestors’ prayers are still carved in stone.