Ken Marsolais
Ken Marsolais is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning producer/director who has worked in theater, film and the arts for over 40 years. He has produced such Broadway classics as The Shadow Box, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst. Marsolais also directed the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1996 Olympics that took place in Savannah, Georgia. His goal in making The Bullish Farmer is to inspire awareness about the importance of the food we eat, gain support for small farms and help save rural America.
Nancy Vick
Nancy Vick graduated from Cornell University and obtained an MBA from the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vick joined the New York advertising agency Ammirati & Puris, the creative boutique that created the famous BMW “Ultimate Driving Machine” campaign.
Vick has contributed to the arts, education and human rights in her role as trustee of several nonprofit organizations. She is president emeritus of the American Classical Orchestra and past executive officer of Quill Entertainment. Vick is also a trustee of Video Volunteers of Goa, India, and NYC, a multiple award-winning, social entrepreneurial NGO that recruits and trains marginalized members of Indian society to become change-making community video journalists across India.
Vick hopes The Bullish Farmer will stimulate a vigorous, ongoing dialogue about the state of farming and food in our country.
Over a decade ago, John Ubaldo, aka “John Boy,” a successful Wall Street investment banker, decided to call it quits. Distraught over the loss of his best friend in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, John traded in his high finance career for 185 acres of land on the Battenkill River in Cambridge, NY, to live a quiet life as a small farmer. John wanted to farm the way it was done 100 years ago, raising a variety of livestock and crops. His only goal was to raise delicious and nutritious food for himself and his extended network of family and friends.
But John’s dream of living an uncomplicated traditional agrarian life gets complicated when he comes up against Big Agriculture (Big Ag) and realizes that his methods are not in sync with today’s prevailing agricultural methods. John, the very private farmer, becomes a passionate and outspoken activist, lobbying for GMO labeling, animal rights, the preservation of crop diversity and the reduction of chemical fertilizers to help preserve small farms and rural America.
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Fundamental to Scientology is a humanitarian mission of extraordinary scope, now extending to some 200 nations. Included therein are programs for human rights, human decency, literacy, morality, drug prevention and disaster relief.
For this reason, the Scientology Network provides a platform for Independent filmmakers who embrace a vision of building a better world.
