2020 IBPA Awards Winner!
"Louie Schwartzberg's lightly informative, delightfully kooky
documentary, "Fantastic Fungi," offers nothing less than a model for
planetary survival." -Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
"Gorgeous photography! Time-lapse sequences of mushrooms blossoming
forth could pass for studies of exotic flowers growing on another
planet." -Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
The Life-Affirming, Mind-Bending Companion Book to the Smash Hit
Documentary FANTASTIC FUNGI
Viewed in over 100 countries and selling hundreds of thousands of
tickets on the way to finishing 2019 with a rare 100% Tomato meter
rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Schwartzberg's documentary Fantastic Fungi
has brought the mycological revolution to the world stage. This is the
film's official companion book, that expands on the documentary's
message: that mushrooms and fungi will change your life- and save the
planet.
Paul Stamets, the world's preeminent mushroom and fungi expert is joined
by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers such as Michael Pollan,
Dr. Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie
Schwartzberg, and many more. Together these luminaries show how fungi
and mushrooms can restore the planet's ecosystems, repair our physical
health, and renew humanity's symbiotic relationship with nature.