Yasi Gerami and Davoud Gerami decided to create Sustenance after their visit to the Aral Sea where they saw a vast desert instead of a sea (due to decades of cotton and wheat agriculture in the region).
Sustenance is fully an independent film production. It took more than five years to raise funds, film, produce and distribute this documentary.
Sustenance is filmed in more than twenty regions around the world.
Sustenance was nominated in the Global Extraction Film Festival 2020.