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Pistachio Wars
Yasha Levine, Rowan Wernham | 2024 | 75 min | New Zealand, USA
World Premiere
BOOK HERE - https://docedge.nz/films/pistachio-wars/
A road trip into the dark heart of the American Dream.
Journalist Yasha Levine follows a lead on a water sale between a farmer and a small desert town and discovers a hidden side to California's healthy snack industry.
At the centre of the story are the Resnicks, billionaires with the flashiest mansion in Beverly Hills and a monopoly on the pistachio trade.
They've taken control of California's water: draining rivers, building plantations in the middle of a desert, leaving a trail of environmental collapse. Towns ravaged by drought, farms built on oil fields, mass extinction, a water heist straight from the plot of Chinatown, and…war with Iran?
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Pistachio Wars
Yasha Levine, Rowan Wernham | 2024 | 75 min | New Zealand, USA
World Premiere
BOOK HERE - https://docedge.nz/films/pistachio-wars/
A road trip into the dark heart of the American Dream.
Journalist Yasha Levine follows a lead on a water sale between a farmer and a small desert town and discovers a hidden side to California's healthy snack industry.
At the centre of the story are the Resnicks, billionaires with the flashiest mansion in Beverly Hills and a monopoly on the pistachio trade.
They've taken control of California's water: draining rivers, building plantations in the middle of a desert, leaving a trail of environmental collapse. Towns ravaged by drought, farms built on oil fields, mass extinction, a water heist straight from the plot of Chinatown, and…war with Iran?