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Get ready for delicious local food, films that get your mind thinking, belly rumbling and a forum for community exchange.
Join Slow Food NAU on October 17th and 18th for a Film Festival centered around local and international food issues and stories.
In addition to the must-see films, we will have everything from local chefs who will prepare and serve regional cuisine, a chance to win a share of local veggies(from Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture), and as our culminating event we will be hosting Curt Ellis, the co-producer and actor in the famous film King Corn.
The food and film festivities will be held at Cline Auditorium from 5:00pm – 10:30pm on Saturday the 17th and 12:00pm- 8:30pm on Sunday.
Food, films, and fun are all FREE!
CALLING ALL Clubs/Organizatioins & Restaurants!If you want a spot at the film festival on Saturday to represent your initiatives and/or food - please email DeJa Walker: deja_dragonfly@hotmail.com or call 928-523-0602 by Monday, October 12th. Table space will be limited.
Saturday
5pm - 6pm – Kick-off the event with:
Clubs/Organizations (on-campus and surrounding Flag community) representing and LOCAL FOODS by LOCAL CHEFS SERVED!
6pm – 10:30pm – Showing:
- 6pm - The Gift From Talking God - The Story of the Navajo Churro (film makers will introduce film)
- 7pm - Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture (CSA director will be introducing film)
- 7:30pm - Our Daily Bread
- 9:30pm - Fresh
Noon – 8:30pm (Local foods will be served throughout day)
12pm - The Garden
1:45pm - The Real Dirt on Farmer John
3:30pm - The Price of Sugar
5:15pm - King Corn
7pm - Big River
7:30pm - 8:30pm – Curt Ellis – guest speaker (co-producer and star of King Corn & Big River)
Film Synopses
Navajo Churro Sheep; A Gift from Talking God
To Navajo people of the American Southwest, “sheep is life”. The Navajo-Churro sheep is the original domestic breed that sustained the Navajo, Pueblo and Hispanic people for nearly 400 years, on the verge of extinction a generation ago, the Navajo-Churro is making a comeback for the Navajo. This breed has been recognized by the Slow Food foundation for Biodiversity. This film offers a portrait of the rarely seen traditional Navajo lifestyle.
Flagstaff CSA
Learn about the world of Community Supported Agriculture here in Flagstaff. This film explains the reasons for such a local foods initiative and how the support is shared not only in the surrounding community but is directly linked back to the farmer.
Our Daily Bread
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living.
Fresh
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
The Garden
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public? And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.” If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?
The Dirt on Farmer John
For close to a century, a great American epic has been played out in the tiny town of Caledonia, Illinois, about 75 miles west of Chicago. The real dirt on Farmer John tells the story of one man, his farm and his family- a story that parallels the history of American farming. But Farmer John is no laconic, Grant Wood-type with a scowl and a pitchfork. Equal parts performance artist, writer and farmer, John Peterson has been known to switch out of his overalls into leapard latex or a purple-feathered boa.
The Price of Sugar
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced.
King Corn
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, 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, nitrogen fertilizers, 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.
Big River
In Big River, Ian and Curt return to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has sent on to the people and places downstream. In a journey that spans from the heartland to the Gulf of Mexico, the two friends trade their combine for a canoe and set out to see the big world their little acre of corn has touched. On their trip, flashbacks to the pesticides they sprayed, the fertilizers they injected, and the soil they plowed now lead to new questions, explored by new experts in new places. Half of Iowa’s topsoil, they learn, has been washed out to sea. Fertilizer runoff has spawned a hypoxic “dead zone” in the Gulf. And back at their acre, the herbicides they used are blamed for a cancer cluster that reaches all too close to home.
SPONSORS:
- Sociology and Social Work
- University Honors Program
- College of Arts and Letters
- Anthropology
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Comparative Cultural Studies
- STAC
- Cline Library
- SSLUG
- Flagstaff CSA
- KNAU day sponsor
- Slow Food Northern Arizona
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PO Box 5765
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Phone (928) 523-0602