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Sustainable Table (Tufts Library) (52 Minutes) Food Systems Planning Coalition Sustainable Agriculture and Food Film List E-mail [email protected] to add another film. Updated 2/20/2010 Big River (2010. 30 minutes) - A King Corn companion. “Big River” brings the two friends back to Iowa on a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact on their acre of corn to people and places downstream. Ellis and Cheney trade in their combine for a canoe and travel south on the network of rivers that connects their acre to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. www.bigriverfilm.com Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy (37 minutes) - In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered"... a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial derivatives. In the 1970s, “Small is Beautiful" helped launch a back-to-the-land movement that is the ancestor to the Local Food Revolution of today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZxTqOV02vI Cuba, the Accidental Revolution (2006. Two 45 minute films) - Examines Cuba's success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how its latest revolutions -- an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine -- are having repercussions around the world. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/cubas.html Deconstructing Supper (2002. 48 minutes) - A chef explores the world of GMO foods when his customers ask him to serve up non-GMO foods. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/decon.html Detroit:green (2009. 15 minutes) - focuses on Earthworks Urban Farm in Detroit, MI, the surrounding community members, the health aspects of eating fresh food. www.amyitis.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/detroitgreen/ Dive! (2010. 42 minutes) - Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it. http://www.divethefilm.com/ Eating Alabama (?) - From April 2008 to April 2009 we ate only food grown or raised in the state of Alabama. We embarked on this gastronomical adventure to focus on sustainable farming and to make a case for a revitalization of our state's rural economy. We filmed the whole process, and now we're putting together a documentary. www.eatingalabama.org/ Faces From the New Farm (2007. 35 minutes) - Liz Tylander, Kat Shiffler & Lara Sheets. From Washington, DC to Montreal and back, the trio interview enthusiastic gardeners in urban areas, youth involved in food justice, new immigrant farmers and a new generation of back-to-the- landers. The film features The Food Project, Nuestras Raices, The Germantown Community Farm, The Intervale Center, and many others redefining the word "farmer". This is a great film for anyone interested in grassroots food and farming initiatives or do-it-yourself film projects and bike adventures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNc8aYGX7Rk http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/videos/2864/ A Farm for the Future (2009. 50 minutes) - In this BBC film, wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon England into a low energy farm for the future. Youtube clips of the entire film available at: http://thecluelessgardeners.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-possible-solution.html Sustainable Agriculture and Food Film List (some at Tufts Media Library) The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle (1997)- The film follows the first successful organizing drive of farm workers in the United States, while recounting the many failed and dramatic attempts to unionize that led up to this victory. Among the many barriers to organizing was the Bracero Program, which flooded the fields with Mexican contract workers between World War II and the 1960s. http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/ Food Fight (2008. 91 minutes) - A fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement rebelled against big agribusiness to launch the local organic food movement. http://foodfightthedoc.com/ Food, Inc (2009. 94 minutes) - Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation. www.foodincmovie.com The Future of Food (2004. 88 minutes) - Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture. www.thefutureoffood.com/ Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980. 51 minutes)-A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080776/ The Garden (2006. 80 minutes) - The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. www.thegardenmovie.com/ Global Banquet: The Politics of Food (2001. Two 25 minute segments) - this gives a great primer on what has happened to the food system and sets the stage for reclaiming it for the people. www.olddogdocumentaries.com/vid_gb.html Grapes of Wrath (1941. 129 minutes) - Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle under http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/plotsummary The Greenhorns (unreleased as of yet) - Severine von Tscarner Fleming. In the autumn of 2007 we officially began seeking out mentors and characters for a film, traveling the country with a confident intuitive sense of an emerging movement of young farmers and a series of borrowed cameras and generous cinematographers. On the road for these 2 years we have found that the movement has emerged--scrappy, resourceful, adaptive young Americans have brought the products and the spirit of this movement into the sun, and we are proud to be the reporters of its successes and a hub for a much-needed centralized network. www.thegreenhorns.net/trailer.html Sustainable Agriculture and Food Film List (some at Tufts Media Library) Grown in Detroit (2009. 60 minutes) - focuses on the Catherine Ferguson Academy (high school for teen moms) in Detroit, MI, the challenge of raising kids while going to school, the farm on site of the school, the principle and teachers. www.grownindetroit.filmmij.nl/ HomeGrown (2008. 52 minutes) - Follows the Dervaes family who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. While "living off the grid", they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a website that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film is an intimate human portrait of what it's like to live like "Little House on the Prairie" in the 21st Century. www.homegrown-film.com/ How to Cook Your Life (2007. 94 minutes) - Dörrie enlists the help of the charismatic Zen Master Edward Espe Brown to explain the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they apply to the preparation of food as well as life itself. “How a person goes about dealing with the ingredients for his meals” explains Dörrie “says a lot about him. How To Cook Your Life teaches us to be attentive in our everyday dealings with the most mundane things and also open our eyes to one of the most beautiful occupations: cooking.” (Boston Public Library) http://www.cookyourlifemovie.com/home.html# How to Save the World: one man, one cow, one planet (2007. 98 minutes) - Exposes globalization and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India, farmers are fighting back. By reviving an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the biocolonialism of multinational corporations." www.onemanonecow.com/ King Corn (2007. 90 minutes) - Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system. http://www.kingcorn.net/ Life in Debt (2001. 86 minutes)-Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S.
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