John Peterson doesn't mind the hard work of farm life, but he also likes glitz, glitter and glamour. John is anything but a conventional salt-of-the-earth type. He writes plays, shoots low-budget movies, hosts all-night, hippie-infested parties and occasionally puts on a feather boa or bumblebee outfit to plow his fields. As for the usual hurdles of keeping a small farm alive, John must deal with confused and frightened neighbors, vicious rumors and outright violence. Filmed over three decades and employing gorgeous home movie footage (John's mother documented life on her farm beginning in the '50s), Real Dirt captures it all — John losing his farm, regaining it, combating his neighbors' intolerance and eventually building the best-known organic farm in the region. (JS)Shows with Grand Luncheonette (dir. Peter Sillen, 4 min.), a perfect movie about the end of an era.