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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Ignite Channel
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Ignite Channel
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary On 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 ...

Directed By: Todd Darling

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Ignite Channel
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Ignite Channel
  • 1 h 30 m

Occupy the Farm

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Summary On 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 ...

Directed By: Todd Darling

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80
Nov 13, 2014
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.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 17, 2014
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.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
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Nov 13, 2014
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
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline What the hands do, the heart learns.
Website http://facebook.com/occupythefarmfilm
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