BRINGING IT HOME: New Documentary in Production
Linda Booker of By the Brook Productions and Blaire Johnson of Green Hope Productions based in North Carolina are currently in production on BRINGING IT HOME about industrial hemp and its possibilities to aid America’s economy and the world’s health and environment. The feature length documentary will explore industrial hemp’s uses for non-toxic, carbon-neutral building construction, its potential to replace thousands of petro-chemical and synthetic-based products, provide nutrition and improve human health, and its ability to boost economic growth and job creation in the U.S. and around the world.
The idea for the film was sparked when Booker saw a USA Today article about America’s first industrial hemp house built in North Carolina for Asheville’s former mayor and his wife. The home’s designer, Anthony Brenner, has a young daughter with a rare genetic disorder and sensitivity to chemicals that can induce reactive seizures. It was her condition that drove Brenner on his quest to find the perfect healthy building material, leading him to Hemcrete’s® non-toxic qualities for home construction. The one drawback — industrial hemp is illegal to grow in the US. As a result, it must be imported, despite the fact that industrial hemp has no psychoactive properties and was a thriving crop in America from the Colonial times through WWII’s Hemp for Victory Campaign.
In 2011 Booker (photo: on right) & Johnson (on left) filmed interviews and footage at the 2nd International Hemp Building Symposium in Granada, Spain with industry leaders from Europe, Canada and South Africa; industrial hemp companies and industries in England including an interview with “Grand Designs” host Kevin McCloud (center) at his Hemcrete® built housing scheme in Swindon; Vote Hemp’s President and legislative liaison in Washington, D.C. and U.S. hemp industry owners and advocates at the Hemp Industries Association conference in San Francisco.
Aiming for completion by the end of 2012, Booker and Johnson plan to submit “Bringing It Home” to film festivals and reach audiences through TV/cable airings in the US and abroad, as well as DVDs and web-streaming. More importantly, they hope to create an awareness and education screening campaign with organizations and groups that link film with activism.
In 2012, funding is needed for production expenses that include filming, research, transcribing, equipment, crew, travel, legal fees, archival footage, licensing rights, insurance, music score, editing, sound, graphics and animation, post-production, marketing and outreach.
Tax-deductible contributions to the film’s production can be made online or by check through our fiscal sponsor The Southern Documentary Fund.
Official Film Website: www.bringingithomemovie.com. Watch our IndieGoGo pitch trailer Bringing it Home Trailer YouTube. Become a fan at the official BRINGING IT HOME movie facebook page.