Wild Hope: Mission Impossible

[Screened Oct. 26 at 1:30 p.m., as part of the 15th annual Twin Cities Film Festival that runs Oct. 17-26 at the Marcus Theaters at The Shops at West End; for more information, log on to www.twincitiesfilmfest.org.] Andia Winslow narrates David Murdoch's fascinating, educational, intriguing, insightful, 40-minute documentary inspired by Andrew Balmford's novel Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success that chronicles the challenging career of Impossible Foods scientist and founder Pat Brown and his team's success in creating plant-based ground beef Impossible Burger that tastes like meat using 96% less land, 87% less fresh water, and generates 89% less greenhouse gas emissions, and the film consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by Pat's brother Richard Brown, Pat's wife Sue Klapholz, biochemists Mark Krasnow and Dan Hogan, biologist Mike Eisen, former Impossible Foods chief communications officer Rachel Konrad, and early Impossible Foods employee and Pat's daughter Ariel Klapholz-Brown.
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