Hello,
There are two movies coming up that might be of interest: Polycultures: Food Where We Live and Food, Inc.
Details below:
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Polycultures: Food Where We Live will premier in Columbus premier on July 11 at Studio 35 – http://www.studio35 .com/
It will be a matinee screening and the guys who made the film possible, David Pearl, Tom Kondilas and Brad Masi will be present to share their story.
Below is a synopsis of the documentary and you can read more about it by following this link: http://web.me. com/blueheron55/ NAC_Site/ PolyCultures. html
It was also featured at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival last March: http://www.clevelan dfilm.org/ ciff_films_ find-details. php?fid=2899
AboutPolyCultures
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is a feature-length documentary movie that portrays the diverse communities around Northeast Ohio coming together to grow a more sustainable and local food system. PolyCultures is firmly rooted in the idea that local/sustainable food is good for the health of individuals, communities, local economies, and the environment. To balance the advocacy perspective, it features many national and international experts who place area food production in the bigger picture of sustainability. The term “polyculture” refers to the ecologically- minded technique of growing a diversity of crops/animals on one farm, but it also represents the documentary’ s participants coming from very different backgrounds to arrive at similar conclusions and take coordinated action. The aesthetic is a mix of “agrarian” camera techniques portraying post-industrial Cleveland and surrounding farmland, symbolizing the ground-level nature of this movement. PolyCultures was produced by LESS Productions in conjunction with the New Agrarian Center from 2006 to 2009.
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Food, Inc.
Starts Fri 7/17 at the Drexel – http://www.drexel. net/beta/ index.php? option=com_ content&task= blogcategory& id=14&Itemid= 29
Director: Robert Kenner
Cast: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide- resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
*RATED PG*
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