Arts-Entertainment
Join the Livingston Film Series on Wednesday, May 13th for their season finale, a Double Feature presentation at The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts, 415 East Lewis Street in Livingston. The event will include two groundbreaking documentaries working to expose the faults in America's food system and how it can be regenerated. The showings will be at 6 and 7:45 pm with a burger & brats dinner beginning at 5 pm. Admission to the event is free.
Kiss The Ground at 6 pm – Sixty years. That’s about how long we have until the world’s remaining topsoil is gone. “What we’re looking at is man-made desertification,” said Director Josh Tickell in his recent keynote speech. However, there is hope. Kiss the Ground, the documentary directed and produced by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, with Julian Lennon and Ian Somerhalder as Executive Producers, explores how this crisis can be reversed. When we regenerate the world’s soils, we can stabilize the Earth’s climate, restore local ecosystems, and create abundant food supplies.
Featuring David Arquette, Gisele Bündchen, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mraz, and Ian Somerhalder, this film is a tour de force of climate activism.
Trailer for Kiss the Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQaZQ-jit6o
Common Ground at 7:45 pm – A sweeping and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement.” Farmers in the movement are forgoing the toxic seeds and sprays pushed by Big Agriculture in order to produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to Kiss the Ground, which touched over one billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those in the front lines of the sustainable food movement, the film unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system.
The film exposes a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture to balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy - before it’s too late.
Trailer for Common Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA
A community talk back will be held after the screenings if time permits. For more information, please contact the Shane Center Box Office at 406-222-1420 or visit www.theshanecenter.org.
The Dulcie Theatre and lobby are equipped with a UV air filtration system. Livingston Film Series is generously sponsored by Marilyn Clotz, Mary Ann Bearden, Donald B. Gimbel and Carol Laloni in memory of Sal Lalani.