Dirt! The Movie (2009)
86 min
A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions.
- Release date
- August 7, 2009
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Jorge Corante
Cast
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Self - Narrator
- Bill Logan as Self - Author, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
- Vandana Shiva as Self - Physicist, Farmer & Environmental Activist
- Fritjof Capra as Self - Theoretical Physicist & Author
- John Todd as Self - Biologist & Eco-designer
- Gary Vaynerchuk as Self - Host, Wine Library TV
- Wangari Maathai as Self - Nobel Laureate & Founder of Green Belt Movement
- Janine Benyus as Self - Founder, The Biomimicry Institute
- Miguel Altieri as Self - Entomologist, UC Berkeley
- Jeremy Narby as Self - Anthropologist & Author
Crew
- Bill Benenson · Director
- Gene Rosow · Director
- Bill Benenson · Producer
- Eleonore Dailly · Producer
- Gene Rosow · Producer
- Jorge Corante · Composer
- David Aubrey · Cinematographer
- Benjamin Bloodwell · Cinematographer
- César Boretti · Cinematographer
- Steve Elkins · Cinematographer
- Alexandra Komisaruk · Editor
- Rob Seidenglanz · Editor
- Jonathan P. Shaw · Editor
- Brian Singbiel · Editor