Documentary Film Night – Friday Feb. 21st
On Friday Feb 21st we are going to be screening two food/farm related documentaries:
7pm – To Make a Farm
8:30pm – King Corn
with Intermission and treats between the two films
To Make a Farm was Named one of the ten most popular Canadian films at the Vancouver International Film Festival, To Make A Farm asks: what might the future of local food and farming look like? This beautifully photographed documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers. VIFF calls To Make A Farm “exceptionally hopeful, giving us a close-range view of humanity along with a detailed portrayal of the nuts and bolts of agriculture.”
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.
This event is a fundraiser for the Galiano Community Food Program.
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s time to start thinking about this year’s garden.
Traditionally on the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, people stayed awake all night, keeping a bonfire burning, in an effort to call the sun back.