IN-PERSON Registration

Note: all in-person registrations also include full online access to all films for the duration of the festival. If you do not plan to attend in-person, you need only register for online access to see ALL films and panel sessions.   

Roots Rising: Land, Food, and Power in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement

As climate change threatens agriculture as we know it and the global population continues to rise, there is an increasing need to implement sustainable agricultural practices. At the same time, the more we grow, the more that this taking of land threatens indigenous peoples­ and the very health of the land itself. How can we navigate these interwoven issues of food security, sustainable agriculture, environmental wellbeing, and indigenous land rights?

Roots Rising presents three films depicting three angles of agriculture: the deleterious effects of climate change on crops such as coffee, an innovative approach to sustainable seafood, and the harms that Eucalyptus farming has on the land and wellbeing of indigenous peoples in Brazil. Join us for a conversation about how these complex issues are intertwined, and how we can grow food that sustains not only the planet, but its people.

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It’s Bean Too Hot

Can you imagine our world without coffee? It’s a very real possibility. It’s Bean Too Hot tells the story of the coffee heroes – small farmers in Costa Rica and Tanzania who are fighting climate change every day to save their livelihoods and your daily cup of coffee.
 

The Ocean Solution

Farming under the sea? Meet Bren Smith, the ocean farming pioneer whose vertical kelp and shellfish farms can transform the way food is produced. As a commercial fisherman, Bren’s career was nearly wrecked by the crashing cod stocks in the North Atlantic; he then turned to oyster farming, just in time for catastrophic, climate-driven storms to show him there wasn’t a solid future in that, either. Unwilling to tether himself to land, he took the hard lessons learned and returned to the sea with a new method of restorative ocean farming. What he discovered is a way to produce large quantities of nutritious food that also fights the climate crisis, cleans the ocean, creates aquatic habitat and sustains his sea-going way of life.
 

MATA

Towards the expansion of the eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous leader stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture on the environment and traditional ways of life. The enemy can also be green.