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The Ants & the Grasshopper

Feb
06
The Ants & the Grasshopper
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Presented with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival: Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home 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 shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together. This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet. Directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper Narrated by Anita Chitaya with Peter Mazunda Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours required for entry to indoor shows. Masks required while inside the venue. This performance is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of Oak Meadow.
Date and Time
February 6, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Location
Next Stage Arts
15 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT 05346
USA
Contact
Next Stage Arts
802-387-0102
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Presented with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival:

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home 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 shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together. This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.

Directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper
Narrated by Anita Chitaya with Peter Mazunda

Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours required for entry to indoor shows. Masks required while inside the venue.

This performance is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of Oak Meadow.

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