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Donald Glover, Jason Momoa, Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder and Rosario Dawson pen letters to a future generation about climate concerns in the above clip from the documentary Common Ground, which The Hollywood Reporter is debuting exclusively.

The film, written, directed and produced by Kiss the Ground helmers Josh and Rebecca Tickell and premiering at the Tribeca Festival on Thursday, explores the connections between farming, politics and illness as well as the Regenerative Agriculture movement. Glover, Momoa, Dern, Harrelson, Dawson and Somerhalder narrate. In addition to warning the next generation, the famous narrators provide hope for ways to fix broken systems.

“As parents of two young children, Common Ground is not only a love letter to kids, but all of the co-narrators of the film are also writing the letter to their children,” Rebecca Tickell tells THR. “The film, and the letter it depicts, are a commitment that we...

Kiss The Ground talks of a simple solution to save planet Earth from most of its ecological woes. The docu-film draws focus on the power of the soil, and suggests regenerative cultivation of the soil as an effective way to avert impending doom.

For a glamour draw, directors Joshua and Rebecca Harrell Tickell have roped in Woody Harrelson as narrator of their cinematic prescription to resuscitate the planet. "Soil contains a universe of life," asserts Harrelson, as the narrative goes about investing its minutes to explain how tapping into the power of the soil to lower carbon footprint is necessary if we must curb the ill impact of climate change.

Watch Kiss the Ground Film Trailer (2020)

https://youtu.be/K3-V1j-zMZw

In order to understand why soil is important, the Tickells and co-writer Johnny O'Hara start off by explaining how rampant abuse of the earth surface has triggered off erosion.

My Sundance Film Festival Monday (Jan. 25) began with a pair of high profile entries from the U.S. Documentary Competition slate. However, despite fascinating subject matter for "Bhutto" and favored Sundance director Jeffrey Blitz behind "Lucky," neither doc fully engaged me. Brief reviews for "Bhutto" and "Lucky" after the break... "Bhutto" (directors Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara) - The late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto gets adoring and arduously by-the-numbers bio-doc treatment in "Bhutto," which aspires to nothing less than a full history of Pakistan, the Bhutto family and a year-by-year chronicle of the iconic politician's life. Although not without enlightening...

Ticket sales are up as this year's festival opens with a programme of films starring James Franco, Kristen Stewart and Banksy. We round up the likely hits

The 31st Sundance film festival opens tonight and business is already booming – at the box office, at least. According to festival figures, 185,000 tickets have already been sold for events at Robert Redford's showcase for the best in independent film-making – 5,000 to 10,000 up from the same point last year.

Yet even today there was still accommodation available in Park City, Utah, where the festival unfolds – a first for more than a decade. This suggests the makeup of festivalgoers may be changing: gone are the days when studios would mass lease ski lodges for their clients and buyers; in their place are lower-fi buffs and film-makers.

Partly it's a result of the recession – the contraction in the movie market over the past 18 months means studios...

Judging by names like Gibney, Blitz, Poitras, Guggenheim, Stern/Sundberg and Grady/Ewing, 2010's Sundance Documentary Competition will be stellar edition with so many return Sundance filmmakers clogging up the section. - Judging by names like Gibney, Blitz, Poitras, Guggenheim, Stern/Sundberg and Grady/Ewing, 2010's Sundance Documentary Competition will be stellar edition with so many return Sundance filmmakers clogging up the section. I'll do more groundwork but off the bat, I'm automatically interested in Gibney's exploration of Jack Abramoff and crew (the official title for the doc is Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Amir Bar-Lev moves from Kids who paint pictures to adults creating their own pictures as was the bad judgment calls from some high ranking folk in the U.S. government (I'm Pat ------- Tillman) and Jeffrey Blitz's long awaited doc on lottery winners (Lucky). Dammit. I pretty much want to see the entire section.