Evolution of Organic

Mark Kitchell

Evolution of Organic brings us the story of organic agriculture told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers’ sons and daughters reject chemical farming and set out to explore organic alternatives. It’s a heartfelt journey of change from a small band of rebels to a cultural transformation in the way we grow and eat food. Evolution of Organic looks to exciting and important futures: · The next generation who are broadening organic into no-till and eco-fashion, even raising salmon in flooded rice fields · Carbon farming as a solution to climate change, taking carbon dioxide out of the air and putting it in the ground where it belongs – “the best news on the planet.” · What lies beyond organic, from soil microbiology as the new frontier to regenerative agriculture that restores everything from the ecosphere to the human spirit.


A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet

Mark Kitchell

A Fierce Green Fire is a big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, grassroots and global activism spanning five decades from conservation to climate change. The title comes from pioneering conservationist Aldo Leopold — who saw a fierce green fire in the eyes of a wolf he’d just shot, and awakened to an ecological perspective. The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character:-- David Brower and the Sierra Club’s battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon,-- Lois Gibbs and Love Canal residents’ struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals,-- Paul Watson and Greenpeace’s campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals,-- Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubbertappers’ fight to save the Amazon rainforest,-- Bill McKibben and the 25-year effort to address the impossible issue – climate change. Surrounding these stories are strands like environmental justice, going back to the land, and movements of the global south such as Chipko in India and Wangari Maathai in Kenya. Vivid archival film brings it all back and insightful interviews shed light on the events and what they mean. The film offers a deeper view of environmentalism as civilizational change, bringing our industrial society into sustainable balance with nature. It’s the battle for a living planet.


Berkeley In the Sixties

Mark Kitchell

Academy Award nominee and well-loved classic BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES brings back the protest movements of the era in all their immediacy and passion. Civil rights and the birth of the Free Speech Movement; anti-Vietnam War protests; the hippie counter-culture; women’s liberation; and the rise of the Black Panthers -- it's all captured in gripping archival film, compelling interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, the Band and Country Joe & the Fish. The Village Voice calls it "probably the best documentary on the Sixties to date!" Newly restored.