MIRASOL, Looking at the Sun delves into the lives of multi-generational Italian and Hispanic families in a rural Colorado farming community – from a 92-year old farmer to the young people poised to inherit the land. Through their voices, the film explores their fight to safeguard a way of life that hangs in a delicate balance in the face of rapid development, water scarcity, and population growth.
MIRASOL is a humble, but powerful rallying cry that helps us understand what it would mean to lose connection to what sustains us. “This land should be like our only child,” says one farmer. “We should be protecting it with everything we have.”
The film is an invitation to stand up for all of the hardworking families and their thriving fields on the fringes of cities across the country that are so often overlooked, or taken for granted. As a community, and as a nation, we have important choices to make that will define our future.
MIRASOL is a catalyst for meaningful change — one where citizens can mobilize to protect land and water for the well-being of nature and people. It is up to us to write the ending of the MIRASOL story with our actions today. Because to love a place is merely the beginning. It will take courage and collective will to protect it.
