Common Ground

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Common Ground

PG,

2023,

1h 45m,

Documentary/

Nature

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Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative "regenerative" models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America's economy -- before it's too late.

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Tomris Laffly

Variety

May 20, 2024

Joshua and Rebecca Harrell Tickell challenge the country’s unethical farming practices through experts and celebrity advocates in a naive film that nonetheless inspires change.

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Donald Liebenson

Chicago Reader

Nov 17, 2023

This film might make you just as much a true believer. Yes, Virginia, there is regenerative agriculture.

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Marya E. Gates

RogerEbert.com

Nov 10, 2023

1.5/4

The film equivalent of an Instagram infographic stamped with an uplifting yet hollow platitude.

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Valerie Kalfrin

AWFJ.org

Dec 11, 2023

a sobering yet inspiring rallying cry for revamping the world’s farming system. ... [The narrators give] COMMON GROUND a down-to-earth touch in urging viewers to leave the world on better footing, and the filmmakers add a postscript on how to do that.

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Alan Ng

Film Threat

Dec 5, 2023

9/10

That rare documentary that actually proposes solutions…practical solutions. I fear that the solutions will disappear into the void if we don’t say anything.

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

Dec 1, 2023

B

Common Ground makes an encyclopedic case for regenerative agriculture. If that sounds like an earnest science lecture…well, it is, sort of. But the filmmakers (Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell) knock themselves out working to keep our attention.

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Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative "regenerative" models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America's economy -- before it's too late.

Director: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Producer: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Eric Dillon
Screenwriter: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Johnny O'Hara
Distributor: Big Picture Ranch/Area 23a
Production Co: Benenson Productions, Big Picture Ranch
Rating: PG (Suicide Awareness|Injury Images|Some Language|Smoking|Thematic Material)
Genre: Documentary, Nature
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 29, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 45m

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