Films
INGREDIENTS
Directors: Robert Bates
Genre: Documentary
American food is in a state of crisis, but a movement to put good food back on the table is emerging. What began 30 years ago with chefs demanding better flavor, has inspired consumers to seek relationships with nearby farmers. This is local food.
Screening: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
Post Screening Speakers:
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Casey Dos Santos Allen, an urban farmer who installs, maintains, & harvests from his clients' backyards
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Jered Lawson, farmer and founding partner of Pie Ranch
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Jenny Huston, founder of Farm to Table Food Services in Oakland and currently a member of the Oakland Food Policy Council.
Food Sampling:
Locally sourced, non-GMO reception catered by Namu Gaji, a local Korean restaurant here in the Mission.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO
Directors: Marie-Monique Robin
Genre: Documentary
The World According to Monsanto is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin. Originally released in French as Le monde selon Monsanto, the film is based on Robin's three-year long investigation into the corporate practices around the world of the United States multinational corporation, Monsanto.The World According to Monsanto is also a book written by Marie-Monique Robin, winner of the Rachel Carson Prize (a Norwegian prize for female environmentalists), which has been translated into many languages. (Source: wikipedia)
Screening: Saturday, October 12th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
MORE THAN HONEY
Directors: Marcu Imhoof
Genre: Documentary
Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction.
Screening: Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
Post-Screening Speakers:
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Karen Peteros of the San Francisco Bee Cause whose mission is to "use urban beekeeping within San Francisco, and products from urban beekeeping as means to further "causes" that benefit San Francisco's human and bee residents."
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Paul Koski from the San Francisco Beekeeper Association which was "established in 1976 and has continued to teach and promote responsible urban beekeeping."
Directors: Robert Kenner
Genre: Documentary
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Screening: Wednesday, October 16th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
Post-Screening Speaker: Julie Cummins of CUESA, a "nonprofit corporation organized in 1994 to educate urban consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links between urban dwellers and local farmers. [CUESA has] managed the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market since 1999."
Julie oversees CUESA’s growing education department. In addition to program development and planning, she manages the Schoolyard to Market program, policy advocacy, seller scholarships, panel discussions, and other projects. She came to CUESA in 2005 with more than 10 years of experience leading education programs, most recently for Greenbelt Alliance. Julie holds a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC Berkeley and is certified in permaculture design and as an Alameda County Master Composter. She is a member of the Oakland Food Policy Council. One of her goals is to learn to genuinely love every fruit and vegetable in the farmers market, and she only has a few left to go.
SCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK
Directors: Bertram Verhaag
Genre: Documentary
In the early 90s the Agro-Chemicals-Multi Monsanto introduced genetically modified plants onto the market, which is the equivalent of an agricultural revolution for some that will solve all the world’s food problems. Others view these plants as an irrevocable destruction of bio-diversity on this planet that needs to be fiercely combated.
Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. They are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both made important discoveries. Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research.
Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public – we all – still trust our scientists?
Screening: Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
FOOD INC.
Directors: Aaron Woolf
Genre: Documentary
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
Screening: Sunday, October 20th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
Post-Screening Speaker: Miguel Robles
A SILENT FOREST
Genre: Documentary
The film details the dangerous impacts of genetically engineered trees on human health, native forests, forest-dwelling indigenous peoples and wildlife.
Screening: Wednesday, October 23th, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
KING CORN
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Genre: Documentary
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.
Screening: Wednesday, October 23th, 2013
Time: To follow A Silent Forest
Location: Matter of Trust: 3338 17th Street, SF (Mission District)
SEEDS of FREEDOM
Directors: Deborah Koons Garcia
Genre: Documentary
Drawing from ancient knowledge and cutting edge science, Symphony of the Soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. By understanding the elaborate relationships and mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals, we come to appreciate the complex and dynamic nature of this precious resource. The film also examines our human relationship with soil, the use and misuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil's key role in ameliorating the most challenging environmental issues of our time. Filmed on four continents, featuring esteemed scientists and working farmers and ranchers, Symphony of the Soil is an intriguing presentation that highlights possibilities of healthy soil creating healthy plants creating healthy humans living on a healthy planet.
Screening: Thursday, October 24th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Randall Museum: 199 Museum Way, SF (Castro District)
Post-Screening Speaker: Dr. Ignacio Chapela, PhD.
SYMPHONY of the SOIL
