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"Touching, instructive, endearing, astute, grounded, heartwarming, and remarkable. Adjectives cannot describe how skillfully Dirt Rich portrays the emergent wisdom of the new breed of earth stewards, scientists, smallholders, agronomists, and activists who brilliantly husband land (and animals) in order to midwife a regenerative civilization."    - Paul Hawken




"Thank you Maui Film Festival for fabulous festival and this award!"






DIRT RICH

Power Beneath Our Feet


Dirt Rich takes the viewer on a journey through a multiplicity of carbon draw down strategies that focus on natural solutions that simultaneously address the revitalization of soil and stabilization of atmospheric carbon levels. Currently the planets soils are desperately depleted as the microbial life within them has been greatly destroyed. Scientists are predicting that on the current trajectory there is only enough good soil to support 64 more harvests. This film couldn't be more timely. Through regenerative agricultural practices, reforestation of abandoned land, protection and the restoration of carbon rich wetlands, Dirt Rich educates and inspires viewers to contemplate how our choices matter, and how everything on this planet connects.
Marcelina Cravat
(Founder and Filmmaker)
Marcelina (Marcy) Cravat, trained at the Art Center College of Design and The Berkeley Digital Film Institute, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her first film, Angel Azul, an environmental documentary narrated by Peter Coyote, and her second film Dirt Rich narrated by actor Greg Cruz, toured over 120 film festivals and picked up numerous awards including the Grand Jury prize at the Dubuque International Film Festival. Her latest film TERRAIN, co-produced by Dr. Andrew Kaufman, was created during the worldwide lockdown and in timely fashion served to inform viewers about the reality of the disproven germ theory when the world was in a state of fear driven panic based on faulty beliefs. This film is available on Amazon and Ickonic.

Currently she is in production on a series of episodes entitled Know Thyself, that follow the path of a mother/daughter team seeking deeper expansion of self-knowing through curiosity, inquiry, exploration and discovery.

Marcy grew up in and around filmmakers as the daughter of character actor, Nick Cravat, and his circus partner and life-long friend and actor, Burt Lancaster. But it wasn't until later in her life that she embarked upon the transition from photography to filmmaking, a bittersweet reality as it was a decade after both her father and Burt passed.

As a filmmaker, Marcy aims to creatively present messages that inspire people to explore for themselves so that they might embrace their own understandings and the value and responsibility of their unique consciousness.
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FILM SCREENINGS

MARCH 2018


Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

March 20 7:00 pm, Bethesda Row Theater

Rumplefarm Private Screening

March 31, 7:00 pm, Sebastopol, CA


APRIL 2018

CASBA Conference

April 13th, Cambria CA


MAY 2018

DIRT RICH PREMIERE

May 21, 7:00 pm, Sebastiani Theater, Sonoma CA

Novato Green Film Series at City Hall

901 Sherman Avenue, Novato, CA
May 31st, 2018 - Doors open at 6:00pm. Free entry!


JUNE 2018

Maui Film Festival

June 17th at 5:00pm
The Castle Theater at The Maui Arts and Cultural Center
Maui, Hawaii

PLACE

PLACE for Sustainable Living
June 29th at 6:30pm
1121 64th Street Oakland, CA 94608


AUGUST 2018

Regeneration Canada

August 20, Aire Commune in Montreal (Time TBA)

2018 Biochar Conference

August 20-23, Wilmington, DE - Time To Be Announced.

Commonwealth Club Panel Event with Filmmakers

Mon, Aug 27 at 6:00pm 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94102


SEPTEMBER 2018

SF Green Film Festival

September 9th, Noon, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco

International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality

September 17th, Jakarta, Indonesia

Citizens Environmental Coalition, Houston Green Film Series

September 19th, 6:30pm
Rice Media Center, Houston, TX

Portland EcoFilm Festival

September 28th at 6:30pm - Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR


OCTOBER 2018

Culinary Institute of California

October 6th, Napa, CA

LA Femme Film Festival

October 12th, 6:00pm - Regal Cinemas LA Live 14; 1000 Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles

United Nations Association Film Festival

October 23rd, 9:10pm - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Friday Harbor Film Festival

October 27th, 10:30am
Palace Theater - 209 Spring St, Friday Harbor, WA 98250

NOVEMBER 2018

Ojai Film Festival

November 2nd, 4:00pm, Ojai, California

Crossroads Festival

November 5th, TIME TBA - Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

Southwestern University

November 8th, 5:30pm - Georgetown, TX
(Director in attendance for Q&A.)

Community Room at the Round Valley Library Commons

November 9th, 7pm - 23925 Howard Street, Covelo, CA

EcoCup Moscow Film Festival

November 27th, Moscow, Russia

JANUARY 2019

Farming Film Festival

January 7th, Opening Film 1:00pm Port Townsend Library & 6:00pm Jefferson County Library

The HFUU Puna Chapter,

January 28th

FEBRURARY 2019

Hilo Palace Theater

February 22nd, 7pm, 38 Haili St, Hilo, HI 96720 (Josiah Hunt in attendance for Q&A)

Chico Breath Studio

February 23nd, 4pm, 830 Broadway Chico, Ca 95926

Transitions Film Festival

February 22nd (Time TBA), Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia

MARCH 2019

Nassau County Sierra Club

March 1st - 7:00PM, Fernandina Beach Public Library, St, Fernandina Beach, FL

One Earth Film Festival - Chicago

March 3rd - 2PM, Windsor Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL

One Earth Film Festival - Chicago

March 6th - 6:30PM, College of Lake County, Grayslake in Grayslake, IL

One Earth Film Festival - Chicago

March 9th - 2PM, Triton College in River Grove, IL

APRIL 2019

Nassau County Sierra Club

April 5th - 7:00PM, Fernandina Beach Public Library, St, Fernandina Beach, FL

International Resilience Film Festival and Panel Discussion

April 20, Nevada City - Time will be announced

MAY 2019

Sponsored by Mothers Out Front, CitySprouts & Farmers To You

May 7th - 6:30-8:30 at Somerville Theater Cambridge, Massachusetts

Katonah Village Library

May 22nd - 26 Bedford Road - Katonah, NY

JUNE 2019

Sponsored by Mothers Out Front

June 12 2019, at the San Tomas Aquino Library in San Jose, CA from 7 to 9pm.

SEPTEMBER 2019

Cinemapolis Movie Theater

September 10th, 7PM. - 120 E. Green Street, Ithica, NY

San Juan Island AG Guild

September 20th, 6:30PM. - Friday Harbor, Washington. (Filmmaker Q&A)

OCTOBER 2019

Autumn Lights

October 17-19th, Lakeside Park, Lake Merrit, Oakland, CA (looping presentation to passerbys).

DECEMBER 2019

Person of the Planet Series

Saturday Dec 7, 7:00 PM, Arlington Community Church, 52 Arlington Ave, Kensington, Ca





With Eyes Open - Radio Interview

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The Mike Nowak Show - Radio Interview

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