FARMSTEADERS is a love story, a farm story, and a story of contemporary rural America. Nick Nolan, his wife Celeste, and their young family are on a journey to resurrect his grandfather's dairy farm — fighting to keep this homeland from "drying up and blowing away," something that has happened to about 4.7 million farms in the U.S. as the pressures of corporate-driven food have left deep scars in the region.

Director Shaena Mallett points an honest and tender lens at the beauty and hardship of everyday life on a family farm, as the Nolans work to balance their fears and hopes with so much at stake.

Nick and Celeste's meditations on life, legacy, and resistance bring complexity and depth to the national conversation and characterization of the rural white American. For the Nolans, only three things remain certain: family is everything, nothing ever stays the same, and the land holds it all together.

52 minutes
SDH captions for the deaf and hard-of- hearing

Directed by Shaena Mallett
Produced by Chad A. Stevens
Cinematography/Sound: Shaena Mallett
Editor: Kelly Creedon
Original Music: Tyler Strickland
Executive Producers for American Documentary | POV: Justine Nagan, Chris White
Produced by Shaena Mallett in collaboration with milesfrommaybe Productions in association with American Documentary | POV

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