Dear Jo Ann,
As a proud UConn graduate (Storrs) and summer swimmer at Avery Point beach, I am thrilled at your upcoming food film festival and have a few films to recommend. The video production classes I took at UConn were very helpful years later when I became an accidental distributor of nature and environmental films! Here are a few more recommendations for you to consider THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. Defying all odds as witnessed in his life's compelling odyssey, he created the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in the United States. http://www.angelicorganics.com http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=501 FRIDAY'S ON THE FARM Feeling disconnected from their food, a filmmaker and his family decide to join a local community supported organic farm. As he photographs the growing process, the filmmaker moves from passive observer to active participant in the planting and harvesting of vegetables. Featuring lush time-lapse and macro photography sequences compiled from nearly 20,000 still images, this personal essay is a father's meditation on his blossoming family and community. http://www.coyopa.com/ http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=646 GARDENS OF DESTINY Has North America taken too many risks with its agriculture? In Gardens of Destiny we meet Dan Jason, an organic gardener on Salt Spring Island, on the Canadian west coast. Jason is the head of the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada, a network of gardeners from around the world working to preserve as much plant diversity as possible. This film explores Dan's garden and seed world and investigates with several sustainable development specialists such issues as genetic engineering, terminator seeds and the pitfalls of industrial agriculture in North America. http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=594 ONE MAN ONE COW ONE PLANET Modern industrial agriculture is destroying the earth: desertification, water scarcity, toxic cocktails of agricultural chemicals pervading our food chains, ocean ecosystem collapse, soil erosion and massive loss of soil fertility. Humanity's increasing demands are exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity. A simple recipe to save the world? One old man and a bucket of cow-dung. Are you crazy? http://www.cloudsouth.co.nz/films/omocop/ http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?cPath=111&products_id=544 CHICKENS IN THE CITY 8 MINS Somewhere beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars and the coffee bars, San Francisco is teeming with chickens, but are they pets or are they food?? CHICKENS IN THE CITY is a chicken-level view of two backyard coops in San Francisco. http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=347 We have had food film events where we prepared a list of local CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) available to interested people after seeing the films. I know I had saved a brochure from my local CSA for 1.5 years. Then I saw The Future of Food and called them the next day and signed up! I am now the community host, the bag pick up sppot. I am a new urban gardener, started last year. Maybe chickens next.... Oh the power of film! BEST! Suzanne Harle _______________________________ visit our environmental film blog! www.greenplanetfilms.org/blog ____________ Suzanne Harle Founder/Executive Director GREEN PLANET FILMS PO Box 247 Corte Madera, CA 94976 415.377.5471 office 415.999.0396 mobile www.greenplanetfilms.org a nonprofit organization The University of Connecticut Libraries in Storrs, Connecticut is planning a film fest on sustainable agriculture/food production in conjunction with the Spring Fling on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2010. The Fling is organized by the University's Dining Services and features vendors of locally grown meats and produce in a street fair atmosphere. Our Dining Services runs a program throughout the year called Local Routes which purchases locally grown/made food for the dining halls and many of these vendors will be there. We even have beekeepers making honey for the dining halls. We'll be showing topical films throughout the day at Storrs and our Avery Point campus in Groton and would be very excited to serve as a venue to screen a newly made film related to sustainable agriculture or food production. Please feel free to share my contact information with film makers and vendors, large or small who might be interested. Established films we are considering are listed below, please chime in with others you know about: A Sea Change - http://www.aseachange.net/ [1] Food Inc. - http://www.foodincmovie.com/ [2] Fresh - http://www.freshthemovie.com/ [3] Price of Sugar - http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/ [4] King Corn - http://www.kingcorn.net/ [5] Future of Food - http://www.thefutureoffood.com/ [6] Peaceable Kingdom - http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org/ [7], HBL Black Gold - http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/ [8], Modern Meat - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/ [9], There's a cow at my table - http://www.goodknights.org/abbott/ [10], Thanks very much! Jo Ann Jo Ann Reynolds Reserve Services Coordinator University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library Storrs, CT 860-486-1406 [email protected] [11] Links: ------ [1] http://www.aseachange.net/ [2] http://www.foodincmovie.com/ [3] http://www.freshthemovie.com/ [4] http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/ [5] http://www.kingcorn.net/ [6] http://www.thefutureoffood.com/ [7] http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org/ [8] http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/ [9] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/ [10] http://www.goodknights.org/abbott/ [11] mailto:[email protected]
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