The Grab
dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite 2022 USA 105 min.
2022 – Toronto IFF, 2022 – San Diego FF: The Best Documentary Film
”The Grab” tells the story of the hidden rivalry between great powers for control over the most crucial resources of our planet: arable land and water
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”The Grab” tells the story of a seven-year research project by Nate Halverson of The Center for Investigative Reporting, beginning with the 2014 sale of Smithfield Foods to a Chinese company for $4.7 billion, the largest deal of its kind. Why did the founder of Blackwater shift his focus to facilitating land acquisitions in Africa? Why was Russia recruiting American cowboys to take agricultural jobs in a part of the country that was, until recently, too cold to sustain farmland?
