FANTASTIC FUNGI: Grateful Greens Documentary Series

FANTASTIC FUNGI (2019, 80 mins). Delve into a time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago. When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected co-creators of our world. Directed by Louie Schwartzberg, this uplifting documentary is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can potentially heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.

For a multi-sensorial experience of the film, join us for a unique culinary adventure featuring plant-based, mushroom-forward cuisine inspired by: FANTASTIC FUNGI, the award-winning documentary screening in our Backlot Cinema after the Pop-up Dinner.

This film screening is the first in an ongoing series that focuses on documentaries that address food systems paired with culinary experiences curated by Grateful Greens.

Our Partners:

Grateful Greens

Based here in Brattleboro Vermont, Grateful Greens uses creative, low impact, indoor farming technology that utilizes solar, rainwater, eco-friendly systems, and Love. They grow sunflower microgreens in a nutrient-rich organic soil mix with organic seeds to create healthy, tasty, and extraordinarily nutritious and sustainable vegetables. Grateful Greens strives to strengthen local food systems and relieve our dependence on resource intensive farming or shipping produce from distant lands. To do this, they use a high-efficiency, soil-based technology that replicates the ideal growing conditions for these crops. This indoor, and all natural, growing technique provides healthy food as well as a healthier local food system. Improving the way we produce food can enable any community to provide healthy, tasty food for itself in any climate or situation, all year long. Their work is as much about nourishment as it is movement!

Collar City Mushrooms is an indoor urban vertical mushroom farm, mycological education center, and community gathering space in Troy, New York. They opened their doors in February of 2021 and have been providing delicious gourmet mushrooms to local restaurants, independent markets, and individual customers that stop in the retail shop. Mushrooms are a versatile ingredient that comes in a variety of tastes, textures, and appearances and can be prepared in innumerable ways.  Roast, fry, smoke, stew, sautee, simmer, or grill, mushrooms can do it all and Collar City Mushrooms loves to show you how!