UP IN SMOKE / 2011 / 70' + 52' / HD /
Directed by Adam Wakeling, Produced by Notion Pictures
This is an award-winning film about a technique that could save more carbon emissions annually than all global aviation combined. It is a film about one of the biggest contributors to tropical deforestation and global warming: slash and burn agriculture. The film follows British scientist Mike Hands, who has laboured for 25 years to perfect a sustainable farming technique to replace slash and burn farming in equatorial rainforests.
And he's found it.
But developing the technique was only the start. Now he needs to persuade governments, agencies and, more importantly than anyone else, the farmers to all adopt it.
This is a film about life and death struggles. About the struggle of Mike Hands to get people to understand his revolutionary technique. It's about the life and death struggle of the impoverished farmers who can ill afford to take the risk of adopting a new farming method. It's a film about our driving need to change what's happening to the remaining rainforests of the planet, and about the forces that may prevent that change from happening.
Mike Hands has the solution, but is the world ready to listen?


Territories sold: Latin America/Brazil, Middle East, UK, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
Screener/Online viewing link available on request here
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