Colin’s films have featured in Nature Magazine, BBC click, Cambridge Science Festival, The Festival of Ideas, Institut Français, The Royal Institution of Australia and international film events.

In 2017, Colin won the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) “Best Research Film of the Year” for his documentary film Pain in the Machine. He is the founder of DragonLight Films a production company in Cambridge.

He is passionate about nature based solutions to climate change and sticking it to the man.

Claire produced the original film “From the Ground Up”, for Carbon Neutral Cambridge. She has a background in TV production and charity fundraising & event organising. She has set up environmental groups both in London and Cambs. With a passion for holistic health care she has been a trained therapist for 15 years, and a trustee at Cambridge Cancer Help Centre.

George farms approximately 1,200 acres (486 hectares) of crops (wheat, beans, barley, oilseed rape, peas and linseed). The farm is zero-till, which means the fields are never ploughed and the soil never disturbed. George does not use any insecticides on his crops and has significantly reduced his use of fungicides and fertilisers. He buys store cattle to graze a further 150 acres (61 hectares).

With the aim of educating the wider community about food and farming, George has a YouTube Channel, as well as a blog (published in the local Parish magazine as well as online), and is very active on Instagram with his handle @FarmingGeorge.

Lucy is a scholar-activist with 25 years’ experience researching the global food system. She was agribusiness researcher for Corporate Watch UK for five years and has run major research projects for Greenpeace International, Compassion in World Farming, World Animal Protection, Global Justice Now and Changing Markets Foundation, among others.

Lucy is an anthropologist by training. During 2020-2022 she was based at Warwick University exploring human - soil relations. She is currently a UK Food Systems Transformation Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire trying to get the UK to eat and grow more pulses.

Lucy is the author of ‘Hungry Corporations’, ‘A Rough Guide to the Farming Crisis’ and ‘What’s Wrong with Supermarkets?’ as well as academic articles on climate change and transboundary water management. She has lived and gardened in the UK, US and Middle East.

Kate has been working in the media industry for 24 years. She began her career as a B2B broadcast technology journalist and has spent the last 20 years providing PR services to global media companies. Kate has co-owned communications agency Jump for the past 15 years.

She has a passion for growing on her allotment, is RHS Level 2 (Principles of Horticulture) qualified and is currently studying for a Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teaching Certificate under the tutorage of Morag Gamble, at the Australian Permaculture Education Institute.

She also paints abstract portraits.

Elsa Kent is a farmer's daughter from South West Devon, who couples her experiences in agriculture, conservation, education and film with her academic study of ecological transition.

She worked as a jilaroo in Australia, and has spent the last 6 years working in wildlife impact film, safari and conservation across much of Africa. More recently she has been working as the environmental education lead for Kivukoni School, partnering with Eco Schools International and ThoughtBox Education to generate an ecological shift in the education system.

Last year she rode and walked 1200 miles with two horses in aid of environmental education, before beginning her Masters Degree at Schumacher College, which focuses on how film can be used to instigate ecogical transition.

Mark Aldridge has worked in the Film and TV industry for twenty years. He has a diverse range of credits and has held several key industry positions including Commissioning Editor at Sky 1, Head of Programmes at Sky Cinema and EP at Princess Productions.

Mark exec-produced the ‘The Academy Awards’ and ‘The Golden Globes’ for British television. He also EP’d the BAFTA Cymru winning ‘Ryder Cup Concert’, the documentary ‘Martin Scorsese, the Man and his Movies’ and developed and commissioned the ambitious doc, ‘Rooftop Rainforest’ where a living rainforest, complete with over a 1000 plants, trees and animals was erected on top of the Westfield shopping centre.

Mark also help launch BT Sport and worked there as a creative consultant for the first three seasons. In the last two years, Mark has consulted for Bedlam Film Productions, Endemol Shine, Classic FM, Wireless Group Radio and ESPN.

Originally from Romania, Daria Hupov is a Cambridge based filmmaker. She specialises in editing and sound recording. In 2019, she won Best Sound at the Royal Television Society (RTS) East Student Awards as a sound recordist for Woodley on The Run, a documentary she also produced.

She satisfies her hunger for knowledge through editing science related documentaries that bring awareness to important and timely subject matters, such as rare genetic diseases, mental health and climate change.

James Murray-White is a multimedia artist and filmmaker, with a background in theatre direction and playwriting. He holds postgraduate degrees in both Human Ecology and Digital Media.

He worked for five years as an environmental journalist and film-maker in the Middle East. He was Senior editor (culture) at Cambridge TV for two years.

James has made films for a variety of platforms, from arthouse to film festivals, online and art galleries including a Channel 4 commission on the life of Bedouin in Israel’s Negev desert and a triptych of film-poems with George Szirtes, screened at the Venice Biennale in 2019. James has completed his first documentary feature film “Finding Blake” (2021) which is due for release later this year.

James is co-founder of the "Save the Oaks" campaign, which planted 160,000 broadleaf native trees in the UK during lockdown.

Mel is helping us deliver our impact campaign across the UK in collaboration with our partners. She has a background in project and event management and is currently working with various groups in the regenerative space. She helped deliver the inaugural Rootstock conference and is a Kiss the Ground soil advocate,

Mel’s passion is helping to scale up and speed up regenerative farming. She brings a wealth of experience of 15 years in bringing people together and building networks. She advised on the documentary ‘My Childhood My Country, 20 years in Afghanistan’ which won a 2022 BAFTA.

Participatory Action Researcher (PAR) at Feedback Global and Applied Farm Management Undergrad. Final year student of the Royal Agricultural University studying Applied Farm Management, BSc

•Speaker at Oxford Real Farming Conference, ORFC 2022.

•Speaker at COP26 2021 Climate Change event, hosted by Nourish Scotland.

•Trained grower under Organic systems and Hydroponics.

•Primary interest -Arable Production, Sustainable agriculture, Small scale farming and Short food supply chains.

Matt is our film distribution adviser. Helping to plan the impact and screening strategy, focusing on a national engagement strategy utilising cinema, institutions, farms and the platforms. He has over 16 years experience in film fulfilment, servicing film studios and distributors globally.

Matt lives on a smallholding in the Cotswolds with his family. He has become hooked on regenerative farming, the importance of the soil and is passionate about a non-greenwashing approach to sustainable farm to fork practices.

Fergus is our film Ambassador, helping to bring corporate partners on board and raising awareness for the film through his network. He is currently co-founder and partner of the Good Fuel Group, a strategic sustainability advisory.

Previously a FTSE250 Board Director, he is on the Advisory Board of two Start-Ups in Green Tech and Healthcare, and consults to the Offshore Wind & Solar energy sectors. Fergus has had a lifelong love of nature and wildlife and lives in the countryside with his wife, two sons and four dogs.

Priya is a biologist with over 12 years of experience in regenerative medicine research. During her time in research she learned about how food and its micronutrients can have positive effects on our bodies. Priya studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Toronto, Canada, has a PhD from University College London, and carried out Postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge and Kings College London.

Priya runs a strategic communications and content consultancy, Scitribe, where she works with organisations across science, agriculture, the environment, and technology – ensuring that their exciting stories are heard on a global stage. She believes that the film teaches us all an important lesson about how we can regenerate our soil and, in so doing, regenerate ourselves and our communities.