Portland Premiere HEMPSTERS - Plant The Seed August 14, 2008

A documentary featuring Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ralph Nader and Woody Harrelson.

If you've felt indifferent to the industrial hemp movement so far, this lively documentary will jump-start your thinking. After witnessing the arrest of Woody Harrelson for planting four feral hemp seeds in Kentucky and his subsequent trial and acquittal, you will likely be spittin' mad. You might be nearly as mad as traveling hemp activist Craig Lee and a number of featured old-school Kentucky tobacco farmers who want to grow the multipurpose crop as a way to save their farms.

You may become disillusioned as Alex White Plume, leader of the Lakota "Tiospaye" (family clan), and the first family to plant industrial hemp on American soil since the 1950s, makes a startling case that his right to grow the crop is a sovereignty issue. Julia Butterfly Hill goes to extreme lengths to protest the pulping of old-growth forests by living for over two years at the top of a thousand-year-old redwood tree in Northern California. Gatewood Galbraith, the fiery orator of the U.S. Reform Party, attempts to bring the public at large to its senses in his own inimitable style.

This motion picture puts hemp at the heart of just about every grassroots issue in America today. Featured players include Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ralph Nader and Woody Harrelson.

HEMPSTERS is not a political study of cannabis, the history of twine or a trendy conversation on ecology. HEMPSTERS was conceived more than a decade ago, shot and edited over the last eleven years and is now test screening with our regional audience. It is a telling tale about standing at the cross-roads of human evolution and wondering which way we should go. And now the whole world is watching.

Many people came together from across America to help get the movie made. Sixteen Oregonians are proud to have played a role in the film's message which will now be heard around the world. Oregon filmmakers hope to reach out to the audience and let people everywhere see what a great message we as Americans had back then - and that it's very, if not more .... relevant now. Come and kick back in the theater and enjoy a slice of pizza and a handcrafted ale during the show. Thursday August 14th 2008, Screenings at 7 & 10, must be 21 and over, Tickets $3 Doors open at 6 p.m. http://www.hempstersthemovie.com

Official Website: http://tinyurl.com/6yeyzz