Announcement: SFHC leaders featured in a new film!

SFHC is beyond thrilled to announce the release of an incredible new documentary, The Ants and the Grasshopper (https://www.antsandgrasshopper.org/), directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper. The film follows the story of Anita Chitaya, who has been a member of our Farmer Research Team since 2001 and a farmer promoter with SFHC for over ten years. This moving, powerful film documents Anita’s journey: opening with her community work in Malawi to address gender inequities and support farming families in building more resilient livelihoods, it goes on to follow Anita’s expedition to the USA in 2017 with SFHC Director Esther Lupafya, accompanying the pair on their mission to share the grave impacts that climate change is having on their communities in Malawi. See the trailer here!

As a film, The Ants and the Grasshopper is both inspirational and deeply moving. As a sobering piece of activism, it calls on those of us with more privilege to take action to address climate change. Here in Malawi, SFHC has spearheaded efforts to not only raise awareness, but also to help build longterm resilience in rural communities through participatory agroecology. Yet our work does not end there. From Malawi, to the UK, to Tanzania, Germany, India, the USA and Canada, our membership, partners and colleagues are leaders and trailblazers in the fight for a just transition away from fossil fuel-intensive industry and toward sustainable, equitable societies. We need your help! We are a small organization and always grateful for donations to support our work. You can also sign up for our newsletter, or email rbeznerkerr@cornell.edu to get involved with our work through Friends of SFHC. If you live in North America, you can join your local 350.org chapter, or get involved with the Sunrise Movement.

The film’s world premiere will be at the Mountainfilm documentary festival in Telluride, Collorado (May 31-June 6 2021). See https://www.antsandgrasshopper.org/ to catch a screening near you, or to request one for your community, school or organization. Raj, Anita, Esther and many more of our colleagues have been working hard on this film for over a decade, and we are so excited to be able to share it with you!

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