SummaryOn Earth Day April 22, 2012, a couple hundred urban farmers marched onto ten plus acres of fallow farmland and the site of a former agricultural research center known as the Gill Tract. The farmers hoped to stop development of a shopping mall and condo complex on the site of the former research station, and de-rail plans that threatened to remove... Read More
Directed By:Todd Darling
Occupy the Farm
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Nov 13, 2014
80
The film is riveting from the start, with its ragtag multiculti heroines and heroes meshing multiple identity markers (activist, academic, refurbished hippie), often within individual selves.
Nov 17, 2014
60
Darling's documentary is garden-variety filmmaking, but it does an effective job in illustrating how years of fiscal crises have forced academia and industry to forge alliances that once would have been considered unlikely.
Nov 13, 2014
30
Rather than present an evenhanded assessment of the issues at stake, the director, Todd Darling, is so busy fist-pumping for urban farming — and so dazzled by his granola heroes — that naysayers must be demeaned and denigrated.
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Release Date:Nov 7, 2014
Duration:1 h 30 m
Tagline:What the hands do, the heart learns.
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