MY FATHER'S GARDEN
My Father's Garden is an engrossing, emotionally charged documentary about the use and misuse of technology on the American farm. In less than fifty years the face of agriculture has been utterly transformed by synthetic chemicals, whose power to control the forces of nature is rivaled only by that of the atom bomb. These chemicals have also changed the farmers who have used them. This film tells the story of two such lives, different in all details, yet united by their common goal of producing good food.
1995, USA, 56 min.
Prod.: Abigail Wright
Script: Nathaniel Kahn
Dir.: Miranda Smith
Dir. of Phot.: Alex Zakrzewski, Ken Bailey
Music: John Kusiak, Caleb Sampson
Sound: James Brundige
Edit.: David Zieff
Miranda Smith
Miranda Smith is president of Miranda Productions, Inc., established in 1985 to produce independent films. She has produced theatre for New York's Off-Broadway. With Realis Pictures, Miranda co-produced a three-film series on the Brazilian rain forest, Amazon Journal, The Yanomami Indians of Brazil and The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai. In 1997 Miranda was given the EarthWatch Award for vision in filmmaking, and in 2005 was awarded LinkTV's first-ever Global Lens Filmmaking Award.
Filmography
Voice of the Amazon (1989)
Wilderness: The Last Stand (1993)
My Father's Garden (1996)
Canary of the Ocean (1997)
The Shaman's Apprentice (2001)