Kiss the Ground
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Regenerative agriculture consists of a series of cultivation techniques which, by combining time-honored experiences with modern scientific knowledge, make it possible to benefit from the properties and resources offered by the land itself. It is a practice that has proved capable of avoiding the devastating effects of overexploitation of the soil. The fruit of ten years’ work dedicated to collecting technical data, scientific advice, and the accounts of experts, activists and companies that have adopted this alternative strategy, the documentary is a precious contribution to what is now a distinct prospect for concrete, effective change. To regenerate the land to regenerate ecosystems and biodiversity is to address the climate crisis rapidly.
Want some good news? Here it is: we can reverse global warming with an accessible scientific solution that respects the environment. It’s known as “regenerative agriculture” and it uses the land to absorb carbon. By renewing the Earth, we will be able to stabilize our climate completely and rapidly, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. To save ourselves from ourselves.
Making Kiss the Ground meant collecting highly technical data and receiving approval from world experts. Every detail in the film was gone through with a finetooth comb by over a hundred scientists, among whom Nobel Prize winners and members of the International Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). We travelled five continents and met important activists such as our narrator Woody Harrelson, Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady, Jason Mraz, Ian Smerhalder, Patricia Arquette and Rosario Dawson.
We have met many challenges over these last ten years,distilling three hundred hours of footage into 87 minutes. Besides having to keep up with rapidly evolving technology - 4K resolution, animation, graphics - financially and creatively, we only just managed to save the film from a drought, from a huge fire and from floods, all caused, as luck would have it, by climate change.
We believe we have succeeded in conveying complex concepts to spectators in a way that is easy to understand, unveiling a revolutionary solution to the climate crisis. More importantly still, the film is a call to action: a solution to save humanity does exist but we need to act fast.
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