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2024 Sarasota Film Festival

Common Ground

20231 hr 45 minUnited StatesEnglish

Screenings

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    Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 PM EDT

    Ends 4:45 PM EDT

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    Regal Hollywood - screen #3

About this film

Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system while profiling a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late. Common Ground is the recipient of the 2023 Human/Nature Award, a prize established to amplify a film that best exemplifies solution-oriented environmental storytelling.

Credits

Director
Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Producer
Josh Tickell Rebecca Tickell Eric Dillon Narrated by Laura Dern Jason Momoa Rosario Dawson Ian Somerhalder Woody Harrelson Donald Glover
Executive Producer
Bill and Laurie Benenson Jan Ellison Baszucki Ian Somerhalder John Paul DeJoria
Co-Producer
Paul Cohen Ryland Engelhart Finian Makepeace Annie Rooney John Roulac
Screenwriter
Johnny O'Hara, Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Editor
Ryan A. Nichols, Anthony Ellison
Cast
Laura Dern, Rosario Dawson, Jason Momoa, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder
Documentary FeatureEnvironmental

Trailer

Common Ground
Common Ground — production still