Rebecca Harrell Tickell – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

COMMON GROUND – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

December 6, 2023December 10, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin Common Ground, Cory Booker, documentary, glyphosate, jason momoa, Johnny O’Hara, Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, regenerative agriculture, Rosario Dawson, Roundup

In the once-barren grasslands of Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, a rancher explains how changing his grazing practices brought the arid land back to life. Cattle’s hooves broke up the soil. Manure fertilized it, returning much-needed microorganisms. Eventually, the ground turned rich again, dark and moist like what one person likened to chocolate cake—and yielding a reward that’s also sweet. Tall grasses. Butterflies and other insects—even rain. “We are the rainmakers of the desert,” he says.

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ON SACRED GROUND – Review by Lois Alter Mark

January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Lois Alter Mark Amy Smart, Dakota Access Pipeline, Frances Fisher, Joshua Tickell, On Sacred Ground, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, William Mapother

A fictionalized story about Standing Rock and the 2016 protests to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built on sacred tribal lands, the script is full of cliches and beats viewers over the head with its messages about our country’s treatment of the Indigenous People. There’s no question that there is vital information to be imparted here but the fact that it’s all filtered through the perspective of a white man cancels out so much of its credibility.

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THE REVOLUTION GENERATION – Review by Lonita Cook

April 14, 2022April 17, 2022 Lonita Cook documemtaries, Generation X, Josh Tickell, michelle rodriguez, Millennials, Neil Howe, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, The Revolution Generation

Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell turn a lens on the question of how Millennials can rescue the world and its future from certain demise, The Revolution Generation defines the crisis, explains why there is a crisis, asks for change and calls on Millennials to take responsibility for it. But it never delves into what change is or even revolution, but rather conflates them in the interest of negotiating The American Dream and fulfilling the potential of The Great American Promise.