Who funded the film
The biochar visionaries.
These organizations paid for The Biochar Effect to be made. Without them, there is no film.
Waste. Energy. Carbon.
One answer. One film.
In 2022 a friend invited me to the North American Biochar Conference in West Virginia.
I left with a film to make.
TheBiocharEffect
The people who should know about biochar often know almost nothing about it — let alone its extraordinary potential and versatility. And nowhere was there a story that put it all together. That is a strange thing to discover about something this potentially life-changing.
For 150 years we have lived in a linear economy. We have taken, burned, polluted and discarded — with staggering consequences.
That is what a linear economy has left us with.
And here is a material known to the ancient Amazonians a thousand years ago. Black, light, almost lifeless to the touch — but profoundly circular.
It is waste turned into value while producing renewable energy. It restores soil, filters water, improves materials, replaces fossil-derived carbon, and locks carbon away for centuries.
One material. A remarkable number of solutions. A fundamentally different way of thinking about waste, resources, and what we leave behind.
Four years. Five continents. Twenty locations.
The film is finished.
Now we show it to the world.
Fifteen stops. Three continents. Five country premieres, four industry conferences, five university screenings, and a presence at COP.
A film is only half the work. The other half happens in the room afterwards — when a municipal leader turns to an engineer, when an investor asks about scalability, when a student walks out having decided what to do with her career. Red carpets, full houses, and conversations that run long past the credits.
Because what stands between biochar and the world is not the science, the technology, the scalability, or the use cases. It is awareness. Too few of the people who could build this industry know that it exists — and that is a problem a film can solve, but only if the film is in the room.
These organizations paid for The Biochar Effect to be made. Without them, there is no film.