The cinephiles among us will know that the Sundance Film Festival is on at the moment. Well, agrobiodiversity-philes everywhere will rejoice that one of the movies being screened is a documentary called Dirt! The Movie. It is, of course, about soil. Is the lady in the photo in that last link Vandana Shiva? She does feature in the cast list, along with other agrobiodiversity luminaries. Anyway, perhaps surprisingly, the flick seems to be eliciting some interest among mainstream Hollywood critics. Has anyone out there seen it? It’s based on the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan.
LATER: Alas, “Dirt” is not mentioned by The Economist as a possible next eco-blockbuster, but Robert will be pleased at the plug for “The End of the Line.”