Good and Plenty film series gets to the root of the food we eat
Published 12:01 am Tuesday, January 11, 2011
No, Everett Community College is not giving away free boxes of Good and Plenty candy, but they are offering something sweet: The “Good and Plenty Film Series.”
This series starts today and runs on Tuesdays through Feb. 1, focusing on food, farming and the future.
All films
are free and open to the public. Showings will be twice a day, starting at noon in Gray Wolf Hall, Room 374, and at 6 p.m. in Baker Hall, Room 120 at EvCC, 2000 Tower St., Everett.
The series highlights films on sustainability and the production of food in America, and was inspired by the book “Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet” by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, according to an EvCC press release.
It opens at noon today with “Two Angry Moms,” where Amy Kalafa chronicles the efforts of leaders in the fledgling movement to improve meals served at school cafeterias.
The other films are:
“King Corn”: Jan. 18. This 2007 documentary has college students Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis returning to Iowa, where they manage to grow an acre of corn and to unearth some hidden truths about America’s modern food system.
“Dirt! The Movie”: Jan. 25. Directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow, this is a humorous and meaty look into the past and current state of the living organic matter that we humans come from, and will return to.
“Fresh”: Feb. 1. A 2009 documentary by Ana Sofia Joanes celebrates the farmer and all those who are helping to forge healthier, sustainable food alternatives, while offering a practical vision for the future of our food.
For more information about the series, contact Jeanne Leader, EvCC’s Dean of Arts and Learning Resources, at 425-388-9502 or jleader@everettcc.edu or go to [URL]www.everettcc.edu/evccreads;http://www.everettcc.edu/evccreads[URL].[/URL]
