Episode #7 | Chiara Hollender
New Images of Farming
Filmmaker & Storyteller - PBS Digital - “Women of the Earth”
Episode 7 guest Chiara Hollender shares how her deep connection to land helped her to clarify her passion for storytelling, and then to give herself permission to focus that gift to be life-giving and sustainable. Her clarity yielded a great thing for us and the world - Chiara now directs and produces the documentary series Women of the Earth, through her production company, Summer Moon Productions, and PBS Digital.
Listen with us as this food-loving, garden-growing Vermonter, shares the unfolding life of a filmmaker and storyteller. She also tells beautiful stories of her grandmother’s Persian cooking!
Chiara is committed to finding and sharing the stories of women creating solutions to climate change, through both ancient and innovative land and sea practices. In a critically important and different way, she shares these stories in the first person, allowing each woman she showcases to speak for herself and have her own voice amplified. In this she powerfully changes up narratives; expanding our intuitive recognition of roles women play in securing our food, wearing farmer overalls, healing the Earth, and innovating in science.
Resources
"All we can save"; By Arianna Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K - https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-we-can-save-truth-courage-and-solutions-for-the-climate-crisis-ayana-elizabeth-johnson/18834354?ean=9780593237083&next=t
"Women of the Earth" PBS - https://www.pbs.org/show/women-earth/
Tadik - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/dining/persian-food-recipes-samin-nosrat.html
Stowe Theater Guild- https://stowetheatre.com/
Women's land ownership in the U.S.A. - https://healfoodalliance.org/key-takeaways-from-the-latest-usda-census-of-agriculture/#:~:text=Although%20Black%20land%20ownership%20increased%20in%20the,without%20a%20formal%20property%20title%20or%20will).
PBS terra - https://www.youtube.com/pbsterra
Geena Davis Institute - https://geenadavisinstitute.org/
GLAAD Awards Talk by Glenonn Doyle and Abby Wombach - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHwlKasy5Li/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Microplastics researcher looking for plastic free oyster harvesting methods - https://www.deerisleoysterco.com/plastic-free-sea-farming
Brene Brown "Failure Conference" Ted Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Lucille Conteras - https://www.texastribalbuffaloproject.org/our-team
Flight Behavior; by Barbara Kingsolver- https://bookshop.org/p/books/flight-behavior-barbara-kingsolver/6430798?ean=9780062124302&next=t
Animal Vegetable Miracle; by Barbara Kingsolver, https://bookshop.org/p/books/animal-vegetable-miracle-tenth-anniversary-edition-a-year-of-food-life-barbara-kingsolver/6439160?ean=9780062653055&next=t