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Inspired by fantastic fungi on Netflix

A film that explores the connection to earth through witchcraft and various occult practices. A girl that is born into a witch family with her two mothers and is part of their local coven. She tried to deny her powers for most of her life and push them down hoping they would go away because she was scared of what they would do - after an incident when she was younger and her brother died where she blamed herself for her release of power even though it wasn't entirely her fault and there was other components in play where the power hungry witch that doesn’t belong to a coven attempted to draw her power out of her. The story would unfold with her accepting her power and learning through the coven how to use herbs and such for healing and how to connect to the earth and respect it. For an action scene where she finally understands how to use her power and how strong she is she spellbinds the greedy witch so that they cannot practice anymore. She uses nature to get in touch with her ancestors and spirit guides. for a love plot line maybe she meets a boy from a different coven and he also teaches her what he knows and they slowly form a close relationship.

 The opening title sequence would consist of close up images of her hands, herbs hanging up, old large books, close up of her eyes and face and the boys face and eyes, old houses, candles, there would be a non-diegetic soundtrack behind and the images would overlay each other so that you can see multiple at a time but the opacity is turned down for example with each of the characters eyes as they each looks up the images and overlayed so they appear to be looking up at each other. A good example of this is the opening title sequence to 'a discovery of witches'. 

The documentary talked about all of the connections underground and how trees and plants actually communicate and help each other when they need extra water etc, this got me thinking about connecting to the earth and how much we don’t yet know about the earth. They said that we know more about space than we do about the fungi that live underground connecting every life form together. There was an amazing part that showed a form of fungi that actually absorbed and oil spill and turned it into fuel for it to live therefore un-polluting the area.