2009-2010 Favorite Movies About Food, Organics, Farming, Nutrition, Corn, and Chickens
Our movie recommendations. First, start out by asking your local library to get you a copy from inter-library loan if it does not have it in its collection. If that does not work, then see if it's playing at one of our New Hampshire art house theatres, like Red River in Concord. If that does not pan out, then purchase a copy!
My favorites that we show to our food and garden groups are:
King Corn, Mad City Chickens, Eat Drink Man Woman (awesome look at how values change intergenerationally), Fresh: The Movie, The Real Dirt on Farmer John (a Sunapee fave!).
French Fries to Go documents Telluride, Colorado's quest to run city buses on recycled fryer oil.
Garden Cycles: Faces From the New Farm is the story of three women on a three-month bicycle-powered tour of urban gardens throughout the Northeast.
Polycultures: Food Where We Live looks at communities in Northeast Ohio that are coming together to grow a more sustainable, just, and local food system.
The Greening of Southie is about Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building and the way it affected a community.
Eating Alaska is a documentary by a vegetarian filmmaker who moves to Alaska and marries a hunter. The film looks at the ethics behind food choices and how politics, society, religion, and taste all play a role.
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate traces West Coast food production from field to table.
To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig tours outstanding farmers' markets from Baltimore to Hawaii.
The Real Dirt of Farmer John looks at one man and his family farm. Farmer John and his story will have you re-considering stereotypes about farmers.
The Garden examines the largest community garden in the U.S., 14 acres of green in South Central Los Angeles and the fight to keep it there.
Two Angry Moms shows two angry (and awesome) moms striving to improve school lunch with simple changes, like having fresh fruits and vegetables included on cafeteria trays.
Our Daily Bread Unser Täglich Brot is shot like a high end art-house film sand hows minute after minute of shocking footage of industrial food production and high-tech farming.
Super Size Me now feels like a classic among all these newer films. Watch as Morgan Spurlock spends 30 days eating nothing but McDonald's while investigating the companies' extremely long reach into school cafeterias and countries around the world.
Media That Matters: Good Food is a collection of 16 short films on food and sustainability.
The Greenhorns an upcoming film on enterprising, hopeful, and young farmers that are bringing an infusion of youth and a wave of excitement to the one of the oldest professions of all.
Food Fight is a look at the development of American agriculture and policy in the 20th century and the birth of the counter-revolution of the local and organic foods movement.
Food Stamped follows a nutrition educator and her husband as they do their best to eat healthy food on a $50 week food stamp budget.
What's On Your Plate? is a documentary that follows two 11-year-old New Yorkers, Sadie and Safiyah, as they try to find out where the food on their plates comes from.
-Mario