The ant and the grasshopper

Director / Producer / Sound

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 skeptics 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 lived 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.

Produced by
Raj Patel, Zak Piper, Rachel Wexler, and Peter Mazunda

Directed by
Raj Patel and Zak Piper

Distinctions

2021 MountainFilm Premiere

WINNER 2021 MountainFilm Moving Mountains Award

WINNER 2021 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Gaia Prize for Environmental Filmmaking

WINNER 2021 Centre Film Festival Best Feature

WINNER 2022 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Jury Award

WINNER 2022 American Conservation Film Festival Green Fire Award

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