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Industrial Hemp Documentary Sparks Action on
Farming Legalization and Policy Reform
“Bringing It Home” to screen in name of community
Date, 2014 — Your City, Your State — The recent Farm Bill provision for hemp research and pilot programs
has sparked national media awareness and conversation about hemp. But what’s preventing the U.S. from fully
joining 31 other industrialized nations that allow its farmers to grow this beneficial crop?
A screening of the award-winning documentary film “Bringing It Home” and [panel discussion, Q&A] will be
hosted by name of organization on date, time, at venue in city.
In 2013 twenty-one states introduced industrial hemp legislation, but current federalpolicy still places a barrier
on production. More industrial hemp fiber, seed and oil is exported to the U.S. than to any other country and
American consumers are purchasing over $500 million in hemp products annually. Bringing It Home explores
the question of why a crop with so many widespread benefits cannot be farmed in the United States by exploring
its history, industries and current farming legalization efforts.
Filmmakers Linda Booker and Blaire Johnson were inspired by environmentally-conscious home designer
Anthony Brenner’s story to find the healthiest building material available to build a safe indoor environment for
his young daughter Bailey, who has a sensitivity to synthetic chemicals. Brenner received national media
attention when he and Hemp Technologies completed “America’s First Hemp House” for the former mayor of
Asheville, North Carolina. Booker and Johnson tell the story of hemp through animation, archival images and
footage they filmed with hemp business leaders and entrepreneurs like Brenner in England, Spain, Washington
D.C.,California and North Carolina.
The screening of “Bringing It Home” in your location is part of a national grassroots screening tour across the
country, “We made “Bringing It Home” with the intention of reaching a broad spectrum of viewers – from policy
makers and civic groups, to farmers and health advocates,from consumers to the construction industry –with the
same strategic message about how hemp offers solutions and hope,” says Director Linda Booker. The
documentary aims to magnify dialogue and legislative action about hemp in order to facilitate America’s
transition to a more informed, sustainable, and healthy future.
Your organization is hosting the film as part of its mission to your group’s mission and goal. Your organization
also [describe organizational activities and/or accomplishments here].
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For more information about the event, please contact your name at your number. For more information about the
film: www.bringingithomemovie.com
Want to get involved with the largest campaign to return hemp farming? Join the 5th annual Hemp History Week
(June 2–8) and celebrate It’s Time to Grow. Hemp History Week is a national grassroots and retailer education
campaign designed to amplify support for hemp farming in the U.S., featuring over 1,000 events in cities and
towns throughout all 50 states. Volunteer-led grassroots events, retail promotions, community screenings of the
hemp documentary BRINGINGIT HOME, a day of action, and spring hemp plantings, will catalyze movement
on the hemp legalization issue nationwide, as more and more states lift the ban on growing hemp. More
information and a new promotional video for the campaign are available at: www.HempHistoryWeek.com
Producer/Director,Linda Booker, is available for interviews and press inquiries. Please contact Ms. Booker at
lbooker@blast.com
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