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Over seven years and four continents, Patty Mooney and Mark Schulze interviewed more than 170 people about cannabis. Those conversations became a feature documentary and a growing family of shorts, each with its own cast. Every film streams at New & Unique Videos®.
The feature documentary
NECTARBALL®: The Story of Cannabis
How the world’s most misunderstood plant went from sacred medicine to public enemy, and back again. Filmed over seven years in California, Amsterdam, Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa, with an original score by Patty Mooney.
- Documentary of the Year, CelebStoner Awards 2023
- Best Feature Documentary, New York Movie Awards
- Gold Award, Paris Film Awards
- Finalist, FilmHaus
The cast
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Keiko BeatieCoral Cove Wellness
Rinus BeintemaFounder, Suver Nuver
Eduardo BlasinaMuseum of Cannabis, Montevideo
Uwe Blesching, PhDCannabis medicine author
Alexander CarpenterSustainable cultivator
Swami Chaitanya“Swami of the Sacred Plants”
Tommy ChongComedian and actor, Cheech & Chong
Michael Cindrich, EsquireCannabis attorney, San Diego
Ariel ClarkCannabis attorney
Danny DankoAuthor, Cannabis: A Beginner’s Guide
Steve DeAngeloCo-founder, Harborside
William DolphinAuthor
Madeline DoneganMuseum of Weed, Los Angeles
Adam IllSocial media influencer
Jane KleinEd Rosenthal 420
Robby KriegerGuitarist, The Doors
Wade LaughterCultivator of the Harlequin strain
Dr. Raphael MechoulamThe “Father of THC”
Michelle NewhartAuthor
Ed RosenthalAuthor and the “Guru of Ganja”
John SalleyFour-time NBA champion
Nurse Heather Sobel, RNFounder, Cannabis Nurses Network Conference
Ken Sobel, EsquireCannabis attorney
Craig WassermanCannabis attorney
Chris “Blue” WrightCannabis Talk 101
Also featuring Dan Herer, Fernando Soriano, Hillary Raimo and many more.
Documentary
Twelve Black Cannabis Visionaries
Black communities paid the heaviest price for cannabis prohibition. This film meets twelve Black leaders, from entrepreneurs and athletes to a comedian and a cannabis nurse, who are building the legal industry, changing the laws and making sure the people hurt most by the drug war have a place in what comes next.
The twelve
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Chris BallFounder, Ball Family Farms
Ngaio BealumComedian, writer and activist
Siboniso BophelaCannabis entrepreneur, Cape Town
Jenny-Beth DillsFounder, Kind Cannabis Consulting
Nurse Fame, RNMedical cannabis nurse
Christyna GilesSpeaker and business strategist
David IrvingFormer Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle
Guy RocourtCo-founder, Papa & Barkley
John SalleyFour-time NBA champion, co-founder of Deuces22
Tyla SalleyCo-founder, Deuces22
Nichelle SantosFounder, CannaCoverage
Thunder WalkerHost and founder, Proud Mary Cannabis
Documentary · The Netherlands
Dutch Cannabis Masters
Four legendary pioneers who shaped the Netherlands’ cannabis culture and challenged its laws, from Amsterdam’s pioneering coffeeshops to the courtroom and the continuing fight for legalization and personal freedom.
Doede de Jong’s passing in 2022 makes his appearance especially poignant, preserving the voice of a man who refused to back down.
The four masters
Rinus BeintemaActivist, founder of Suver Nuver
Mila JansenThe Hash Queen, inventor of the Pollinator and Ice-O-Lator
Doede de Jong (1949–2022)Grower and activist
SomaBreeder, founder of Soma’s Sacred Seeds
Special thanks to our friends in Amsterdam, Aleksi Mikael, Herbert Green and Bríd Ní Fhoighil.
Short documentary · Courtroom
ED: USA vs. Ed Rosenthal
The City of Oakland deputized Ed Rosenthal to grow medical cannabis for patients, many of them living with AIDS. In 2002 federal agents arrested him anyway. At trial the jury was never told why he grew it, and once the full story came out, several jurors said publicly that they regretted their verdict.
Featuring
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- Madeline DoneganMuseum of Weed, Los Angeles
- Adam IllSocial media influencer
- Jane KleinEd Rosenthal 420
- Robby KriegerGuitarist, The Doors
- Michelle NewhartAuthor
- Ed RosenthalAuthor, publisher and activist
- Craig WassermanCannabis attorney
- Chris “Blue” WrightCannabis Talk 101
Short documentary
Fighting Cancer With Cannabis
Scientists, nurses, cultivators and activists on how cannabis plant medicine can ease the symptoms of cancer, and the story of three friends who learned they had brain tumors.
- Award winner, Delta International Film Festival
- Award winner, The Rooster Film Festival
- Semi-finalist, Niagara Falls International Short Festival
The voices in the film
- Danny DankoCannabis cultivation writer
- Christyna GilesSpeaker and business strategist
Matt GressCannabis cultivator
Heidi GroshellePublic relations
Dale Sky JonesChancellor, Oaksterdam University
Jeff JonesFounder, Oaksterdam College
Elisabeth Mack, RNRegistered nurse
Kevin McKernanScientist, Medicinal Genomics- Dr. Raphael MechoulamThe chemist who first isolated THC
Taylor PadillaBudtender
David Ross“The Water Man,” the “Gandhi of San Diego,” who gave water to the homeless
Dr. Dustin SulakIntegrative physician
Documentary · Humboldt County
Operation Green Sweep: The War on American Farmers
What happens when the War on Drugs becomes a war on American farmers? In the summer of 1990, federal agencies sent troops and Black Hawk helicopters into the King Range near Petrolia, in California’s Humboldt County, to pull up marijuana on public land. It was the first time active-duty soldiers were used against cannabis growing in the United States.
Through the experiences of farmers and rural communities, the film raises hard questions about property rights, agricultural freedom, government authority and the human cost of prohibition.
The voices in the film
Chris AndersonRedwood Roots- Keiko BeatieCoral Cove Wellness
Captain Cameron- Steve DeAngeloCo-founder, Harborside
Kimberly DellaCorva- Madeline Donegan
- Heidi GroshellePublic relations
Jesse Hill
Nicholas Holliday
Humboldt High Five- Adam IllSocial media influencer
Stefan Johnson- Jane KleinEd Rosenthal 420
Heather Kornberg
Wendy Kornberg
Papa Kush
Kyle Kushman- Wade LaughterCultivator of the Harlequin strain
Trell Messenger
Casey O’Neill
Chiah RodriquesArcanna Flowers
More from the NECTARBALL® series
Shorts, series and music films
The Nectarball Collection
Half a century of cannabis history kept in jars, with collectors Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney. About the collection
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CANNAMINUTES®
The Orange Series: 30 voices from the NECTARBALL interviews, including Tommy Chong, Danny Danko and Sunshine Cereceda. Blue, Purple and Green series to follow.
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Root & Remedy
A contemplative film on plants, roots and old knowledge, set to the opening song of Patty Mooney’s album Americanna.
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AMERICANNA
The title song of Patty Mooney’s album: cannabis in America as medicine, menace, livelihood and memory.
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Meet the filmmakers
Patty Mooney and Mark Schulze have made independent films together since 1982, from mountain biking classics to NECTARBALL®.
About Patty & MarkNew & Unique Videos®
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Press kits
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NECTARBALL®: The Story of Cannabis
- Producer
- New & Unique Videos®
- Director & DP
- Mark Schulze
- Writer & editor
- Patty Mooney
- Running time
- 81 minutes
- Language
- English
- Social
- @Nectarball on Facebook and Instagram
Twelve Black Cannabis Visionaries
- Producer
- New & Unique Videos®
- Director & DP
- Mark Schulze
- Writer & editor
- Patty Mooney
- Running time
- 39 minutes
- Language
- English
- Social
- @Nectarball on Facebook and Instagram
Inside the NECTARBALL® press kit
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