OF WILD CACTI & HARDY HERBS

Despite the seemingly overwhelming obstacles to either launching or maintaining their small businesses, Sandra Velasquez (https://nopalera.co/) and Julia Kravets, two different Brooklyn-based founders, successfully tap into nature’s healing as foundations for their work. In exploring their challenges and aspirations as women and small business owners, we experience a bit of what it means to have passion and values that fuel an entrepreneurial journey. 

This film was part of the TYSB X ARTIST US Mini Doc Collection. Silver Lining’s Small Business Artist Program was launched with the mission to spark conversations and combat the injustice, bias, and discrimination that small business owners from marginalized communities face through the universal language of art. As part of that mission, Silver Lining has partnered with JPMorgan Chase and GoDaddy to produce the Global Collection and Wells Fargo to produce the State of Small Business in America Collection. The film was unveiled to the public through a virtual art festival held in a Metaverse gallery where people came in as avatars and interacted with the films and filmmakers.