SOUL OF A FARMER Streaming Premiere October 19

First Run Features presents the streaming premiere of Roger Sherman's new award-winning documentary film The Soul of a Farmer beginning October 19, 2021. The Soul of A Farmer follows Patty Gentry, a former chef, as she battles to earn a living on her three acre Early Girl Farm on Long Island. Isabella Rossellini, from whom Patty rents her land tells us, “Patty is the Picasso of vegetables!” The documentary upends the romance of farm-to-table. Buying fresh produce directly from farmers markets and at farm stands is wonderful, but the farmer’s life is a constant struggle. We watch Patty work her butt off (with her small, mostly female team) seven days a week, growing the vegetables her top chef clients treasure. Patty’s passion is to constantly improve her soil, increase her yield of organic vegetables, and just as urgently to be thinking of how to stay afloat. Says filmmaker Roger Sherman, "my portrait of Patty is a portrait of every small independent farmer."