Thriving Communities
Thriving Communities creates documentary films that elevate community solutions to the challenges of our times, telling stories about “common people doing uncommon work for the common good.” Born from the joy and inspiration that founder Jerry Millhon found in storytelling while serving as Director of the Whidbey Institute in 2012, the organization produces two to […]
Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life
Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life is a 70-minute documentary exploring the speed, depth, and magnitude of our growing planetary crisis—and the opportunity we have to meet this crisis consciously, with eyes and hearts wide open. Why it matters: It holds together what many discussions of planetary crisis separate: the unflinching reality of our situation […]
The Wisdom of Trauma
The Wisdom of Trauma is a documentary featuring Dr. Gabor Maté that offers a revolutionary perspective challenging how our society understands and responds to mental health, addiction, and chronic illness. The film presents the profound insight that “so much of what we call abnormality in this culture is actually normal responses to an abnormal culture,” […]
Fantastic Fungi
Fantastic Fungi, a film by Louie Schwartzberg, takes viewers on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet—an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, and best-selling authors including Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, and Andrew Weil, […]
Kiss the Ground Documentary
Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson, shedding light on a “new, old approach” to farming called regenerative agriculture—a practice with the extraordinary ability to balance our climate and feed the world. The film unveils a game-changer to our climate crisis: the Earth’s own soil. At a moment when the future […]
Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that […]
Changing of the Gods
Saving Capitalism
Saving Capitalism is a documentary film that follows former Secretary of Labor and Professor Robert Reich as he takes his book and his views to the heart of conservative America to speak about our economic system and present big ideas for how to fix it. The film documents Reich’s journey into communities often dismissed by […]