Midian Farm

Directed by: Liz Marshall Released: 2019 (educational) Year of Production: 2018 Running Time: 80 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Agriculture, Environmental Studies, Religion and Spirituality, Sociology, Women's Studies           If it had happened in America, Midian Farm would be a Hollywood script. Instead, its legacy is memorialized through a compelling point-of-view historical Canadian documentary. From 1971 – 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.   WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING   "A charming 1970s period piece about the rise and decline of a collective of youthful idealists in rural Ontario, Midian