Films
Asparagus: Stalking the American Life
For 30 years, Oceana County Michigan has been the Asparagus Capital of the World. Now its spear-struck residents and family farms take on the U.S. War on Drugs, Free Trade and a Fast Food Nation, all to save their beloved roots.
www.asparagusthemovie.com
Eating Alaska
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the last frontier? Eating Alaska is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. It is about trying to break away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths.
www.eatingalaska.com
FLOW
FLOW is an investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. The film exposes the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
www.flowthefilm.com
New Amsterdam Market
A short film promoting the possibility of a new market in NYC's historic seaport district. New Amsterdam Market proposes the creation of a permanent market of purveyors dedicated to sourcing regional and sustainable food.
www.saragrady.net
Hot Bread Kitchen
On the surface, Hot Bread Kitchen is a company that makes and sells
delicious breads to hungry New Yorkers. But the organization and
philosophy behind it are so much more! Hot Bread Kitchen is a workforce
development for immigrant women and in this short documentary film we
learn exactly what they’ve been doing to change the lives of this
underserved community.
http://www.mylifetime.com/fun-games/sweeps/vote-your-favorite
Farm to Cafeteria: A Red Hook Lunch
Urban farmer Kimberly Vargas shares her story of the pride and joy of providing local school kids with farm fresh food, right here in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1fV6804Q4
