The Ants and the Grasshopper
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Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi 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 climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
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9 people
Raj Patel Director · Zak Piper Director
United States release May 16, 2022 · Produced in Malawi, United States, United Kingdom · Languages English, Nyanja
Production
Bungalow Town Productions
Production
Kartemquin Films
Production
Malawi · United States · United Kingdom
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Generation Food
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Nyanja
Release dates
United States · May 26, 2021
Premiere · Mountainfilm Festival
United States · May 16, 2022
Digital · EarthX Film Festival
South Korea
June 2, 2022 · Digital · Seoul International Eco Film Festival
June 4, 2022 · Premiere · Seoul International Eco Film Festival
June 4, 2022 · TV · Seoul International Eco Film Festival
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