In Search of Good Food: Food Stamped - Independent Local Film

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Food Stamped - Independent Local Film

Coming up this weekend and the next, check out Food Stamped, a documentary made by local filmmakers!

Berkeley educator Shira Potash teaches nutrition-based cooking classes to students in low-income neighborhoods, most of whom are eligible for food stamps. In an attempt to walk a mile in their shoes, Shira and her filmmaker husband Yoav embark on the "food stamp challenge", eating on roughly $1/meal. Along the way, they encounter different perspectives on the intersection of food, money, healthcare, politics, and marital bliss.
See the trailer here.

Saturday, June 20 - 8:00-10:00pm Film screening + panel discussion with Food Stamped experts and social justice advocates along with tips on how to eat healthy in lean times.

Sunday, June 28 - 7:00pm Film screening + Q&A with the filmmakers

Location: JCC of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709

$8 JCCEB Members /$10 Non-Members

Questions? Call 510-848-0237 x148

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What is this blog?

This blog chronicles the making of the movie "In Search of Good Food", as well as events and topics relating to the movie.

In Search of Good Food follows Antonio Roman-Alcalá, an urban farming activist from San Francisco, on his search for the "sustainable" food system in California.

The film attempts to answer the question: does the sustainable food system actually exist? And if it doesn't, what is preventing it from becoming reality?

Built off of footage from a two-month trip around the state in early 2008, In Search of Good Food features interviews with farmers, farmworkers, wildlife advocates, cultural biologists, university professors, historians, educators, grassroots groups, organic foods distributors, the CA secretary of agriculture, and many others who form the various arms of this movement to ensure an ongoing supply of healthy, ecologically and locally-produced, economically affordable food for all Californians.

Mixing street interviews with food consumers; the perspectives and stories of advocates; animations; and footage of both the bucolic countryside and hectic city, In Search of Good Food presents both a compelling argument for the need for a better food system, and incisive criticism of the limited effectiveness of consumer-based solutions.

In Search of Good Food will make you think beyond "voting with your fork", to the real challenges and opportunities that we face in creating a safe, just, and sustainable food system that provides good food for all.

Who best to answer the questions of how to make change happen, than those working to make it happen?

For more information,
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