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Food Rights Film Festival

November 20, 2011

A gathering of powerful documentaries with important information about the choices we need to make to live in a healthy world with healthy food for our families.

Full day: $30 includes all films, organic lunch, celebrating local farmers, biodynamic garden tours, community activist theater, rallies for information sharing with farmers, food activist groups.

Half day: $14 films only, morning or afternoon (no lunch).

8:30 am: Campus opens for registration pick-up

9 am: Sign in and showing of films:

  • FARMAGEDDON – The Unseen War on America’s Family FarmsJust released!
  • QUEEN OF THE SUN – What the Bees are Telling Us - how we all need to listen and protect the bees
  • KING CORN – Two young men find they test out with a whole lot of corn in their systems and set out to find out why

10:45-11:15 am: Morning Break

11:15- 12:30 pm: Rally, celebrating local farmers, short info/ talks from food and farmer activists and food rights groups.

12:30-1:30 pm: Delicious organic lunch and Biodynamic Garden tours

1:30 -2:30 pm: Community food activist theatre – more rallies!

2:30-3 pm: Break for signing petitions, networking, and Biodynamic Garden tours

3-4 pm: Film showings:

  • POWER OF COMMUNITY – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil with Organic Farming! To become the only sustainable country in the Western hemisphere
  • MY FATHER’S GARDEN – A powerful testament to the destruction of chemical farming, and hope for the future through organic methods
  • SILENT SPRING – Rachel Carson’s brave stand as a leader against the chemical industries and government policies poisoning the world

4-5:30 pm: Film showings:

  • FARMEDGEDDON – The Unseen War on American Family Farms
  • HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD, ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET – What a sustainable, bio dynamic, organic food can really do to feed the world!
  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO – From Agent Orange to Genetically Modified Food

 

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