[UrbanCropCircle] Fw: "Dirt" - documentary Saturday April 10th 7:00 p.m.

[Jean Darsie]

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Subject: "Dirt" - documentary Saturday April 10th 7:00 p.m.


Folks,


The Queen Anne Movie Guild is showing the documentary "Dirt" this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at the Queen Anne United Methodist Church fellowship hall at 1606 5th Avenue West.


A discussion-in-the-round will be held afterwards.  Refreshments are free.


The skin of the earth is precious.  This film shows how it is being treated around the world, and how it can be given the attention it needs to keep is in food.  It has won the highest film awards, including Sundance, and is a source of understanding of our human race's nutritional fate hard to find in one place.








     
     
Search Results1.. Dirt! The MovieDirector/producers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson flank Andy Lipkis, of Tree People, andDirt! The Movie's narrator Jamie Lee Curtis after a boffo ...
  www.dirtthemovie.org/ ut The Film


 "Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt."
DIRT! The Movie--directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow--takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, "dirt is very much alive." Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. "Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt."

DIRT! the Movie--narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis--brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.

DIRT! the Movie is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: "When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked." But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action.

"The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again."

What we've destroyed, we can heal.
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