Peter and the Farm — Trailer

added: Thu, Sep 8th '16

Life on the farm was once regarded as an idyllic existence. A simpler and calmer alternative to living in the hustle and bustle of the big city. Well, that's not the case anymore. Farm life can be just as maddening and frustrating as city life -- and in some cases, more psychologically damaging.

In the documentary "Peter and the Farm," filmmaker-and-cinematographer Tony Stone examines the weather-beaten soul of 70-year-old Vermont organic farmer Peter Dunning as he confronts the challenges of keeping his farm afloat for 30 years. It's a farm that has cost him everything, including his relationships with his four children and two ex-wives.

"Peter and the Farm," which has drawn strong reviews at a number of film festivals this year, is the first documentary from Stone, who made his feature film debut with 2007's low-budget psychedelic Viking movie "Severed Ways."

The documentary is set to hit theaters and VOD November 4. Watch the trailer, above.

synopsis:
Peter Dunning is a rugged individualist in the extreme, a hard-drinking loner and former artist who has burned bridges with his wives and children and whose only company, even on harsh winter nights, are the sheep, cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter is also one of the most complicated, sympathetic documentary subjects to come along in some time, a product of the 1960s counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone’s documentary is both haunting and heartbreaking, a mosaic of its singular subject’s transitory memories and reflections -- however funny, tragic, or angry they may be.

directed by Tony Stone

release date November 4, 2016 (in theaters and VOD)