The Just Film Festival Explores Food and Farming
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The Just Film Festival, in collaboration with Village Vancouver, presents a piercing program of films on the topic of Food and Farming!
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Sponsored by Village Vancouver, the always popular Food and Farming film series produces a diverse crop of documentaries that explore how the ways we grow, consume and waste food shape our world.
Saturday afternoonKicking off Saturday's program Vancouver Premiere, Growing People follows three sisters in O'ahu, Hawai'i learning about farming organically utilizing traditional indigenous practices as a way to escape from stereotypes of underachievement and crime into an environmentally and socially sustainable future for their family and community. Employing a healthy dose of humour to tackle a serious subject, Food Stamped examines the food system in the United States and explores whether it is possible to eat well on a budget of a dollar per meal. Through their adventures they consult with members of U.S. Congress, food justice organizations, nutrition experts and people living on food stamps to take a deep look at America's broken food system.
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds takes us into the world of seed saving and the fight to maintain seed sovereignty in the face of efforts by multinational corporations to monopolize seed supplies. Back home in the lower mainland we meet two Vancouverites investigating the issues of waste from farm and retail, and their own fridge in Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story. Equal parts education and delicious entertainment, Just It Eat looks at our obsessions with "best before" dates, perfect produce and portion sizes that reveal the core of an issue that has devastating consequences around the globe.Sunday afternoon
Closing out our series on Food and Farming on Sunday we present
the amazing story of The Man Who Stopped the Desert. Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer living in northern Burkina Faso revives and adapts an ancient farming technique known as Zai and began to grow crops successfully on previously abandoned land. Yacouba's hardest battle was not with the elements, but with the people around him. On every side he faced opposition to his techniques, and many thought his ideas crazy. Over time, his successes became legendary.
The Just Film Festival is a co-production of Amnesty International, CoDevelopment Canada, Langara - Continuing Studies, and Village Vancouver, showcasing social justice and environmental documentaries that go to the heart of issues confronting communities here and around the planet.
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