Doug Fine’s feature documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER premieres at the 24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival on April 25, 2024.
AMERICAN HEMP FARMER World Premiere
Thursday, April 25, 8 p.m.
24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival
Tickets at: https://addmi.com/e/american-hemp-farmer-NuH5_GwMCZcA8zWLkOX
Premiering at the Rolling Still Picture House, part of Santa Fe’s historic Jean Cocteau Cinema (and owned by none other than George R.R. Martin). Q and A to follow film. Advance ticket purchase suggested.
This film asks, “Who Says Saving the World Can’t Be a Blast?”
After a wildfire nearly turns his family (and goats) into refugees on their remote New Mexico ranch, former suburbanite Doug Fine sets out to discover food security around the world via hemp and other crops.
Host Fine Fine then follows three farming families for a year as they attempt to grow a healthy crop and business while fighting climate change. Who says saving the world can't be a blast?
There's one thing that every human being on this planet shares: the need for a habitable planet. Suburbanite-turned-hemp-farmer-and-goat-herder Doug Fine learns from the world’s oldest hemp farmer and them teaches newlyweds how to become a digital age farmer.
In between, he travels from Native American tribal lands to George Washington’s Mount Vernon and back home to his Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico, sharing his hard-won regenerative hemp farming expertise with his family and the world.
After a bear fleeing a massive wildfire killed his goats and put his family in danger, Fine says, "I'm telling these stories because the well-being of your family and mine might depend on it.”
This wild, funny film is about food security, family wellness and having fun along the way. In fact, Fine says, “becoming a regenerative farmer or supporting them in your community is the most fun you can have outside the bedroom.”
AMERICAN HEMP FARMER page at the Santa Fe Film Festival:. Film Premieres April 25. 8 p.m. Tickets and location: https://addmi.com/e/american-hemp-farmer-NuH5_GwMCZcA8zWLkOX