With the global health and wellness market valued in excess of $5 trillion, it’s unsurprising that some view the industry’s many claims through the sceptical lens of placebo profiteering however when Writer/Director Leo Villares was doing his own research into the sector, he learnt he needed to get over his own ingrained misgivings and that there may be more than meets the eye. The Farm, from Picloc Productions, is a short film about openness and empathy triumphing over cynicism, featuring tight shots of Tom Stourton as a reticent anxious unbeliever whose driving scepticism puts him at odds with the opportunity for an emotional breakthrough with his wife offered by the wellness cult, and expressed through the film’s lush cinematography capturing the natural beauty of their idyllic location. The Farm certainly left me with a desire to open my own, perhaps overly closed mind to a way of...
- 9/23/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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