WEED & WINE

Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family—a poised French matriarch and the son she raised among her vines—tends a centuries-old, biodynamic vineyard in the Southern Rhône in France. On the other side of the world in Humboldt, California, another family—a brash father and his more reserved son—carefully manage a state-recognized, organic cannabis farm.
Weed & Wine interweaves their stories, urging comparisons between France’s revered winemaking traditions and the entrepreneurial horticulture springing up with the legalisation of cannabis. But both farmers—the vintner and the pot-grower—face uncertainty. Can weed—long relegated to the criminal shadows—become the new wine? And can the ancient French winemaking industry survive intact into the twenty-first century, as climate change and a new generation of millennial winemakers challenge the old guard?

Director Rebecca Cohen
2022 USA, France , 89 mins
English & French

Theatre Royal
30 Hargraves Street
Castlemaine  Vic  3450

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