Posts Tagged ‘films’
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
By now you may be thinking I’m obsessed with movies about food, seeing as how this is my third post on the topic. That may be the case.
If you are interested in more food related films at an affordable price, you can catch them at the DC Independent Film Festival, which goes until March 14th.
Image: DCIFF
All films can be seen at the Navy Memorial Museum/Heritage Center/Burke Theatre in DC (701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W). Sessions are typically $10 (less for students/seniors) and include several movies. You can also attend 10 sessions for $50.
Tuesday, March 9
Bananas!* Watch the case of a banned pesticide between Nicaraguan banana workers and Dole Foods unfold in this suspenseful documentary. Part of the Politics of Food theme session. 7pm.
Calzone. An 11 minute film about a Mafia godfather eating dinner in an Italian restaurant. When he orders a calzone he realizes there isn’t an egg inside it and makes a big ordeal out of the matter. Part of the Politics of Food theme session at the festival. 7pm, right after Bananas!*
Image: Bananas!*
Thursday, March 11
Beyond the Pole. A film about two guys trying to be the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, Organic expedition to attempt the North Pole. Can they finish the expedition without any experience, is it a dream, or did they die and go to heaven? Find out at 7pm. It’s part of the Green Room theme session of the festival.
Saturday, March 13
Between Grass and Sky: Rhythms of a Cowboy Poem. Images of the American West are portrayed in poems by three cowboy poets in this short documentary. The 6 minute film is part of the Artistic Expressions theme session. 1:30pm.
A Drop in the Bucket. A documentary about good people providing clean water in rural Cambodia. The filmmaker spent the last two years building fifteen wells with the help of Sambrothers Clean Water Project and Journeys Within Our Community. The 23 minute film is part of the Asian Pearls theme session. 4:45pm. Visit the non-profit organization’s website for information on how you can help.
The last film is included because World Water Day is coming up on March 22nd. And last I checked you can’t make food without water. More information on that in an upcoming blog.
Speaking of water and food…today is National Crabmeat Day. And The Cove won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
–Aisha Salazar
Films Connect Food and the Environment
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Image: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
The 18th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital will be held March 16-28 in Washington, DC and will feature 155 films. One of the main themes at the festival this year is the connection between food and the environment. 32 of the films will be part of the Food & Agriculture Film Series.
Topics include school food programs, the sustainable organic movement, biodiversity, the slow food movement, food security, migrant farm workers, and urban agriculture. Bonus: The majority of the films are free!
Below is a list of films that relate to our region.
If you haven’t seen Fresh, which features Virginia farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms, you can watch it on March 17 at 7:30pm at the National Geographic Society. Following the screening, you can participate in a discussion featuring the filmmaker Ana Sofia Joanes, Ann Yonkers, Co-director of FRESHFARM Markets, and by phone, Joel Salatin.
Lunch is a short documentary co-presented by the Earth Day Network & Center for Environmental Filmmaking. The film takes a look at school lunch programs, particularly within the Baltimore, MD public school system. It will be shown with the film Potato Heads at American University with a discussion afterwards with the Potato Heads filmmaker and the Director, Avis Richards of Earth Day Network. The film can be seen on March 22 at 7pm and is free to the public.
NORA! A film about Nora Pouillon, DC’s pioneer in the organic and local-food movement and owner of the nation’s first certified organic restaurant. Following the film there will be a discussion with the star herself. The film can be seen for free on March 23 at 7pm and will be screened at the International Student House.
Who Killed Crassostrea Virginica: The Fall and Rise of Chesapeake Bay Oysters. A whodunit film about the decline of the Chesapeake Bay oyster population. Was it the watermen, the oyster farmers, or the scientists who study them? The film can be seen for free on March 21 at 1:30pm at the Carnegie Institution for Science and will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Michael Fincham and oyster biologist Ken Paynter and Captain Ed Farley.
There will also be films on global water issues, including a film on the restoration of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC (The Meaningful Watershed Education Experience), and a fifteen minute excerpt on chemical contaminants within the Chesapeake Bay (Poisoned Waters: Chesapeake Bay).
For a complete list, visit the film festival 2010 Films page.
