2024 Field to Film Youth Storyteller Film Festival
December 6, 2024, 10:30AM – 12 PM (EST)
Online (Zoom), free entry
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Meet this year’s storytellers
From Burkina Faso to Honduras and Mali to Nepal, meet youth from 9 countries bringing regenerative, community-led, and ethical farming solutions from field to film.
NEPAL, BBP PARIWAR
Sharmila
This short film from Nepal highlights the impact of farmers adopting bio-fertilizers. Through training and hands-on practices, they’ve learned to prepare organic inputs using locally available resources. Featuring the stories of farmers cultivating vegetables with bio-fertilizers, the film underscores the importance of sustainable farming for healthier communities and a thriving environment.
ECUADOR, Ekorural
Iván, Maite, Melanie & Pablo
Chimborazo – the closest point on Earth to the sun – in the Andes mountains in Ecuador is deeply rooted in Indigenous culture. Here, the Quechuas have relied on sustainable agricultural practices for generations, cultivating crops like quinoa, potatoes, and corn in harmony with nature.
In this short film, Iván, Maité, Melanie, and Pablo reveal the significance of agroecology in their lives, explaining how it has brought them closer together, taught them new skills, and given them a way to cope with increasing droughts and crop loss in their community.
GUATEMALA, Asociación de Agricultores las Ilusiones el Divisadero (AGRIDIVI)
Gali & Madeline
Through one family’s journey, Gali and Madeline reveal how our health is deeply connected to how our food is grown. As the family adopts regenerative farming practices, we witness the transformation they experience—both for the well-being of their land and their own.
HONDURAS, Vecinos honduras
Liliana, Arizelda & Melissa
Rayuela follows two young friends in rural Honduras as they discover the connection between friendship and a shared commitment to ecological stewardship. With its compelling message for youth, this short creative film encourages viewers to think of Nature as a friend.
Mexico, El Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario (Centéotl)
Rebecca
Set in the culturally rich region of Oaxaca, this film explores how the Mestizo community is preserving ancestral farming knowledge. In sharing her community’s practices such as safeguarding Indigenous seeds, Rebecca highlights how honoring this knowledge can build resilience to climate change and help youth reconnect with nature.
HONDURAS, Asociación de Comités Ecológicos del Sur de Honduras (ACESH)
Nelson, Ersel, Ariel, Edras, Erick, Arelys, Enita, Cesia, Hisela & Didier
In this fiction film, youth from Concepción de María, Choluteca, Honduras, share their perspective on the urgent need to protect their community from the threats of mining, and call on viewers to understand the risks and support community-led efforts to preserve their land and well-being.
GUATEMALA, QACHUU ALOOM
Elwin, Cándido & Dayana
This short film takes us into the rich agricultural heritage of the Maya Achí Indigenous people in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. It highlights an ancestral cultivation system known as milpa, a sustainable and biodiverse practice interweaving corn, beans, and squash. Featuring voices from the community in their native language, the film showcases their commitment to preserving indigenous seeds, promoting agroecological techniques, and fostering food sovereignty, with women as guardians of their cultural legacy.
HAITI, PARTENARIAT POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL (PDL)
Cynnedie-Anne & Ruddy
This short film documents the transformative impact of PDL on Haitian farmers. Through training, tools, and agroecological approaches, PDL has empowered communities to enhance productivity, minimize waste, and diversify outputs. Set against the backdrop of a nation facing persistent challenges, the film underscores the importance of community-led solutions in fostering resilience and hope.
MALI, Sahel eco
François, Tienou & Dembélé
Deep into the arid landscape of the Sahel, this film gives an inside look into the benefits of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) on communities in the Tominian circle in Mali. As the region grapples with rising food insecurity, land degradation and conflict, FMNR is helping communities build autonomy and rely on their land to provide their communities with nourishing food year-round.
BURKINA FASO, Association nourrir sans detruire (ansd)
Paul, Clémence, Sayouba, Justine, François, Rebecca, Josué & David
In a small town in Burkina Faso, dedicated young farmers and pioneers of small-scale vegetable farming explain how simple practices turned modest fields into a lifeline, allowing youth to earn a steady income and support their communities amid an escalating food and insecurity crisis.
SENEGAL, AGRECOL AFRIQUE
Djibél, Madi, Mamadou & Ahmadou
In Kaffrine, one of Senegal’s most drought-prone regions, rural communities are battling with limited access to resources, soil degradation and desertification. But some farmers have turned to low-tech and regenerative farming solutions like Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) to restore soil health and support their communities. In this film, four young farmers take us into their fields and invite us to meet with a local farmer, showing how FMNR is transforming livelihoods and landscapes.
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