WEED & WINE

Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family—a strong-willed French matriarch and the son she raised among her vines—tends a centuries-old, biodynamic vineyard in the South­ern Rhône. Across the ocean in Humboldt, California, another family—a brash father and his more reserved son—carefully manage a state-recognized, organic cannabis farm. The feature documentary Weed & Wine interweaves their stories, urging compar­isons and teasing out contradictions between France’s revered winemaking traditions and the artisan culture emerging along­side the legal cannabis industry.

2020 / 89 min
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Directed & Produced by Rebecca Richman Cohen

Executive Producers: Alysa Nahmias, Graham Boyd, Lauriane Jussiau

Consulting Producers: Caitlin Boyle, Catherine Siméon

Edited by: Nathaniel Hansen

Original Score: by Max Avery Lichtenstein

A Racing Horse Films Production, in Association with AJNA Films

Awards & Festivals

Hot Docs - 2019 (World Premiere)
Deauville Film Festival (European Premiere)
DOC NYC (Audience Award Runner-Up)
Mill Valley Film Festival
Ashland Film Festival

 
Artwork from the film that looks like a rustic scientific drawing of a buch of grapes on bottom and the top of a bud on top.
Still image from the film weed and wine of Aurelien testing the aroma of a little red wine in a small wine glass.
Still image from the film, a close up of a marijuana flower in the midst of other marijuana plants on the farm.
Still image from the film or a young man, semi-silhouetted, looking back towards the viewer with a joint in his mouth and his face intertwined in illuminated smoke.
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