Next Year Country
Struggling to survive the worst drought since the dustbowl, three desperate Montana families hire a rainmaker, a retired New York cab driver, in a last ditch effort to save their farms. Like Burt Lancaster's magnetic Bill Starbuck in 1956’s, The Rainmaker, who barnstormed the windswept tumbleweed towns of the drought-ravaged American prairie selling empty promises of rain, the rainmakers of popular imagination are never quite what they claim to be. But what about the rainmaker stories that appear from time to time in farm journals and rural newspapers across the American farm belt: personal accounts from farmers who claim success with rainmakers?
Set against the backdrop of the rapid decline of the American family farm, and a prolonged period of drought which has U.N. climate scientists calling for a new understanding of what constitutes “normal weather,” Next Year Country is an exploration of an old American legend set in the contemporary American West. West Coast Premiere.
Out Here in the Fields: The Field on Beach Lane
A family farm in the summer resort community of East Hampton, Long Island, is nearly sold for residential development. The local community joins together and saves it, ensuring access to locally grown food for the next generation.
The Story of Food
Playful, fast-paced animated short that will get you thinking about our broken food system. It reminds us of our lost connection with real and healthy food, and the work of small scale farmers around the world who appreciate the complex relationship between seeds, soil, people and the environment.
Genesis
Animated film that traces a punctuated evolutionary course from the big bang to the arrival of industry and resulting impact on a planet.
