Doug Fine’s feature documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER will screen in competition at the 10th Annual Las Cruces International Film Festival on April 11, 2025 at 1:30 p.m., at the Allen Theaters Cineport 10 in Las Cruces, NM. Tickets at: https://lascrucesfilmfest.com/passes/
After winning Best New Mexico Documentary at the Santa Fe Film Festival, this is the second theatrical screening for the rollicking, solutions based film about regenerative farming, food security and wildfire mitigation.
AMERICAN HEMP FARMER 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 follows three farming families for a year as they attempt to grow a healthy crop and business while fighting climate change.
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.”
Doug Fine’s feature documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER will screen in competition at the 10th Annual Las Cruces International Film Festival on April 11, 2025 at 1:30 p.m., at the Allen Theaters Cineport 10 in Las Cruces, NM. Tickets at: https://lascrucesfilmfest.com/passes/