Fun Informative Food Films

Enjoy movies about growing local food in a global food economy.

All movies will be shown at the Conexions Center [Map], 1023 Corporation Way Palo Alto, CA 94303

Cost for movies is $5 - $10 sliding scale

Thursday March 27: Eat at Bill’s: Life in the Monterey Market
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Eat at Bill’s is a documentary about the phenomenon that is the Monterey Market, a family owned produce market in Berkeley, CA. The focus is on Bill Fujimoto, the market’s owner. Bill’s enthusiasm and experience fuel the enterprise and illuminate the Market’s wide world of small growers and diverse customers.The Monterey Market’s single store supports many dozens of small (and formerly small) farms.

Bill’s determination to support the maximum number of small growers and his passion for connecting customers with the very best has attracted a small army of restaurant customers. Bay Area chefs know the Monterey Market’s back room is the place to find the season’s finest.

Thursday April 17: Broken Limbs:Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Told from a hometown perspective, the film presents the stories of farmers attempting to create this new model for agriculture and emerging, more sustainable solutions to the crises of recent years – solutions applicable not just to apples and not just to farming, but to nearly any sector of the American economy troubled by the effects of consolidation and globalization

Thursday May 22: King Corn
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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, andpowerful 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

Thursday June 12: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

The Real Dirt on Farmer John will turn every idea you ever had about what it means to be an American farmer, or an American dreamer, on its head. Meet Farmer John, the incredible human being whose inspirational story of revolutionizing his family farm and redeeming his own life has won accolades and awards at film festivals around the world.

For additional information, contact Susan Stansbury 650.938.9300 x11

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Susan Osofsky
Valley of Heart’s Delight Project, Co-Director
Conexions: Partnerships for a Sustainable Future
650.938.9300 x18
sosofsky@conexions.org
www.conexions.org/vhd

 

Join Valley of Heart’s Delight for our new FUN INFORMATIVE FOOD FILMS monthly series starting on Thursday, March 27 from 7:30am – 9:00pm.  We’ll be seeing a fabulous new film: Eat at Bill's: Life at the Montery Market.  For more information, see www.conexions.org/vhd/events or call Susan Stansbury at 650.938.9300x11.