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Exclusive: Rosario Dawson and Lana Parrilla are boarding the upcoming SXSW Linda Goldstein Knowlton directed documentary Split At The Root, as EPs.

The pic is schedule to play in the Austin, TX festival’s Documentary Spotlight section.

Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families. When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under the Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the U.S. refused to stand by quietly. Immigrant Families Together was born – a rapid response group committed to doing what the government couldn’t – or wouldn’t do: reunite parents with their children separated by the Zero Tolerance Policy.

Producers for Split at the Root include Emmy Award-nominated...

Exclusive: Rosario Dawson has signed on as an exec producer and narrator of the environment-conscious documentary The Need to Grow, about the importance of healthy soil. The film, which took more than three years to shoot, marks the first feature for Earth Conscious Films and is directed by Rob Herring (The Relationtrip) and Ryan Wirick. With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil remaining on Earth, the pic follows activists and innovators of solutions as they fight to…...

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The Need to Grow

Logline: With an estimated 60 years of soil left on Earth, “The Need To Grow” follows innovators of low and high tech solutions to help localize food and regenerate our planet’s dying soils.

Elevator Pitch:

Almost everyone has heard about climate change. What most don’t realize is reducing carbon emissions is only half of the answer. Carbon already in our atmosphere will not be rebalanced unless it is drawn back down with the help of healthy soils. Soils also reduce drought, flood, increase nutrition, and clean our air and water.