Groundswell Wins Golden Globe Award at Cannes

The Hollywood Reporter

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The documentary film Groundswell, directed by Joshua and Rebecca Tickell, won the Golden Globe Documentary Award at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in collaboration with the Artemis Rising Foundation. The award was announced at an event held at Plage des Palmes on the Croisette, presented by actor and producer Kelvin Harrison Jr. The Tickell couple accepted the award with their two children and received a cash prize of 10,000 Euros from the Artemis Rising Foundation.

Narrated and executive produced by Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson, Groundswell is the third film in a trilogy that began with Kiss the Ground (2020) and Common Ground (2023). Filmed across five continents, the documentary follows the efforts of farmers, scientists, and indigenous leaders to restore soil health through regenerative agriculture and its potential role in combating climate change.

While accepting the award, Joshua Tickell noted that this journey has been a "27-year process" and recalled the first time a mentor gave him a Hi-8 camera. In her acceptance speech, Rebecca Harrell Tickell highlighted the film's real-world impact, emphasizing the increase in the transition to regenerative practices on agricultural land in America. During the period when the previous films were released, this figure was 3.5 million acres, which has now reached 86 million acres. The couple expressed their goal to raise this number to one billion acres worldwide with Groundswell, stating that this is a necessary threshold to meaningfully stabilize the climate.

The jury consisted of Golden Globe president Helen Hoehne, Oscar-winning producers Regina K. Scully and Geralyn White Dreyfous, and Danielle Turkov Wilson, founder of Think-Film Impact Production. The jury praised the Tickell couple's "dedication to telling stories that engage viewers and inspire with real issues."

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