[pre-recorded] NOW AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
A discussion with director Leo Horrigan, a food system correspondent for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF).
36 minutes, $free
This is a recording of the live FILMMAKER Q&A ONLY and does NOT include the viewing of the film. The film is offered to view as a double-feature with VERTICAL: THE FUTURE OF FARMING for $5.95 HERE through January 31.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Leo Horrigan, Director
Leo Horrigan is a food system correspondent for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). He has made three documentary films for the Center, and four in all. His most recent film, "Growing Solutions," explores innovative approaches to crop production challenges that plague farmers, including soil degradation and water scarcity – and all against a backdrop of a rapidly changing climate. In 2016, he released "Food Frontiers," which looks at cutting-edge projects around the United States that are increasing access to healthy food. In 2010, his first documentary for CLF, called "Out to Pasture," highlighted the advantages of raising food animals on pasture instead of in confinement. In 2016, he also completed a film called "Out of Our Heads," which is a rare and intimate portrait of a men’s retreat that strives to create emotional healing using poetry, myth, rituals and community-building.
Learn more about The John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future HERE.
ABOUT THE FILM
GROWING SOLUTIONS looks at real-life solutions to challenges plaguing farmers, such as water scarcity, soil degradation and the ravages of climate change. The flip side of that coin is a regenerative agriculture that means farmers can rebuild degraded natural resources and be more resilient in the face of mounting challenges. It highlights new milestones on the road to creating a perennial polyculture that could replace our current model that relies on annual crops planted in monoculture. This emerging model mimics Nature's eminently resilient prairie ecosystems.
Learn more about GROWING SOLUTIONS and the associated free, downloadable high school curriculum HERE.
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