CSE 2022

The Ants and the Grasshopper

To save her village from extreme weather, Anita Chitaya faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. 

SYNOPSIS

Anita Chitaya farms a dry land and fights for gender equality. To save her village from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets with climate skeptics and farmers. Her journey takes her through all the divisions that shape the United States. It will take all her talent and experience to convince them that we are all in this together.

Theme(s): , Agriculture, Environnement, Feminism, Human Rights, Politics, Social struggle

DETAILS

Director | , Raj Patel, Zak Piper
Year | , 2021
Country | , Malawi, United Kingdom, United States
Duration | 74 minutes
Original language | , English
Subtitles | , French
Image | Clare Major, Peter Mazunda
Music | Graham Reynolds
Editing | John Farbrother, Katerina Simic

DIRECTOR

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Raj Patel

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Raj Patel is a James Beard Award-winning activist and New York Times bestselling author. He has testified about food and hunger before governments in the US, UK and EU, and his book about the food system, "Stuffed and Starved" has been translated into a dozen languages. He has worked for the World Bank and the WTO and has been gassed on four continents when protesting their policies. His academic career spans Oxford, London School of Economics, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley where he taught with Michael Pollan. He is currently a research professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Zak Piper

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Zak Piper is an Emmy and Producers Guild Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His credits include producing the critically acclaimed film "Life Itself" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Critics Choice Award. Zak also co-produced the film "The Interrupters," which was hailed as one of the best films of the year by The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly and the LA Times. Prior to these films, Zak co-produced At the Death House Door, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was an Academy Award finalist. Zak currently produces or directs a number of documentary projects in development or production.

CAREER

Sheffield Docfest · New Haven Documentary Film Festival · Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival · Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival · Human Rights Film Festival Berlin · Take One Action Film Festival Scotland · All Living Things Environmental Film Festival · Princeton Environmental Film Festival · Cork International Film Festival · ReFrame Film Festival · Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital · Center for Biological Diversity's Food Justice Film Festival

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8 July 2022 at 21h15

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