Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness has been screened in hundreds of cities around the world since its release. Interest in the film continues to spread to organizations, communities, and individuals who are interested in good food, or in broadening their cultural understanding of sustainability.
If you are interested to host a screening of Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness for your city, neighborhood, or business, you’ve come the the right place! No matter whether it’s large or small, organizing a screening is a powerful way to spark action, and we have put together a bunch of resources to help you make it happen!
How to Host a Screening
There are generally two options to screen the film:
Option 1 — If your event will charge an admission fee or is a private event:
In this case, you must use the Public Screening License version of the film, which can be purchased (along with a digital copy of the film and supporting materials) through our distributor, Gumroad.
For guidance, please contact us at director@finalstraw.org
Option 2 — If your event is free or donation-based, and open to the public:
You may be able to screen the film royalty-free. Continue reading below for material and advice on how to plan your event. If you have already read the materials below and need additional guidance, contact director@finalstraw.org with the subject line “Community Screening” and we can help you get started.
Community Screening Kit
Please respect our trust in you. Your filmmakers are two individuals who gave away nearly all our possessions, chose to become homeless, and spent our entire (meager) life savings and five years of our life to make this film. If you truly can not afford to buy the film, please send us a note at the above email and we’ll help find an alternative. It is our primary concern to allow anyone who genuinely wants to see the film to see it!
+ Get the Screening Kit
This PDF contains all the information you need to host your own screening. Please download and read this before you begin. It’s also a handy reference guide to help you along with the event:
+ Download and Watch the Film
We hope you’ve watched it already, but if you haven’t, the film can be downloaded here for a small fee:
Note: We understand what it’s like to not have the financial means to pay for something. If you truly can’t afford the download fee, or do not have the means to pay digitally, please contact us and we’ll be happy to help you find an alternative way to see the film.
+ Download Promotion Materials
Some useful materials are offered under a free creative commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) to help you promote the screening. Please feel free to download, edit, and reproduce these images:
- Poster Templates (JPEG) – Template files for web / facebook / printing
- Promotional Images and Press Kit – Both can be found on our press page
+ Donate to Final Straw
In-lieu of demanding an up front screening fee from you (as most documentary films do), we trust that you will donate a percentage of your screening event’s proceeds to Final Straw. Many community groups happily donate 100% of the proceeds from their screening events to ensure that Final Straw can continue our pioneering social and ecological advocacy work, but we trust you to make this decision based on your own situation.
If you do not collect donations from your participants, or if you end up not having any proceeds left after covering your own costs, we won’t hold it against you, won’t hunt you down, and we certainly won’t sue you. Just let us know how it all went, we’d love to hear about all of the screenings that happen!
If you’re confused as to what we’re talking about, or how this all works, make sure to download our screening kit to read about the process. When all else fails, contact us with your questions.
Explore More at Final Straw
What is Natural farming?
While techniques and methods vary widely, natural farmers share common roots in re-connecting themselves and their farming processes to the Earth, and cultivating food that inherently regenerates the health of the natural world—and of humanity.
About the Film
Inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka, and the book The One Straw Revolution, the film weaves together meditative landscapes, an eclectic original soundtrack, and inspiring stories from some of the world’s foremost figures in the natural farming movement.