The Producers

Colin Ramsay

Colin is the director of Six Inches of Soil. His films have featured in Nature Magazine, BBC click, Cambridge Science Festival, The Festival of Ideas, Institut Français, The Royal Institution of Australia and international film events.

In 2017, Colin won the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) “Best Research Film of the Year” for his documentary film Pain in the Machine. He is the founder of DragonLight Films a production company in Cambridge.

He is passionate about nature based solutions to climate change and sticking it to the man.

Claire Mackenzie

Claire is a film producer of independent environmental documentaries ‘Six Inches of Soil’ and ‘From the Ground Up’, both exploring our current farming system. She has a background in TV production, charity fundraising and event organising.
She has set up environmental community groups both in London and Cambridgeshire - with food and farming at their heart.
With a passion for holistic health care she has been a trained therapist for 15 years, specialising working with those affected by cancer and a trustee at Cambridge Cancer Help Centre.

Also a Food Ambassador for Love British Food and when she can works at Sweetpea Market Garden (film featured in Six Inches of Soil).

Making The Film

Director's Statement

Six Inches of Soil tells the inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.

I wanted to tell this story because I felt inspired. Seeing what’s possible on a farm, the amazing folks who grow our food, nurture the soil and are feeding the roots of a food and farming revolution. I used to feel quite sad and indifferent about society’s response to climate change, but through experiencing regenerative agriculture, I found hope.

Six Inches of Soil weaves together real human stories of brave new farmers trying to change a system within the wider social and environmental issues we need to address. The story of food, farming and connection to nature is a story we can all relate to, and I’m hopeful that audiences will see the film and see that change is possible.

Our vision for the film’s impact campaign is to inspire farmers with the confidence to adopt regenerative farming approaches; give consumers the impetus to rethink their food choices; and ultimately create a groundswell of public opinion leading to policy change, support and funding for a British regenerative farming and agro-ecological revolution.

— Colin Ramsay, Director, Six Inches of Soil