Title: A Place At The Table Magnolia Pictures Director: Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush Screenwriter: Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush Cast: Jeff Bridges, Tom Colicchio, Raj Patel, Janet Poppendieck, Barbie Izquierdo, Ken Cook, James McGovern, Mariana Chilton Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 2/7/12 Opens: March 1, 2013 There’s a big billboard sign on Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn that shows a bottle of a prescription drug with a cover that states, “Push down, turn left, and go hungry. One out of seven New Yorkers must choose between taking a drug important for health and buying food.” Could this be true in the world’s richest country? Is America no longer the world’s breadbasket? [ Read More ]
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- 2/8/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
A Place At The Table is from the people who brought you Food, Inc., the eye-opening and alarming documentary from 2009 that attempted to expose dark developments in the way food is prepared and regulated. Food, Inc. was like a horror film in which the villains are McDonalds, Tyson Foods, Corn, and especially Monsanto (the St. Louis-based agricultural and biotechnology corporation – read my Wamg review Here)
A Place At The Table is about how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides – as they have in the past – that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
You can win passes for two for a screening of A Place At The Table in St. Louis on February 19th at 7pm at Landmark’s Tivoli Theater. Simply email me at tom@wearemoviegeeks.
A Place At The Table is about how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides – as they have in the past – that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
You can win passes for two for a screening of A Place At The Table in St. Louis on February 19th at 7pm at Landmark’s Tivoli Theater. Simply email me at tom@wearemoviegeeks.
- 2/7/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Steve James is the director and producer of the documentaries “Hoop Dreams,” “Stevie,” “Reel Paradise,” “At the Death House Door,” “The Interrupters” and “Head Games,” which is awaiting release. He also co-wrote and directed the narrative feature “Prefontaine.” “Generation Food” is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis — through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps. On July 8, we launched a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise funds for the very first research trips we need to make on the film, to locations such as Peru and Malawi. So far, we’ve raised half our goal, with a little less then half the time left. I’ve never done this kind of fundraising before. But for some time I’ve been intrigued to see that people have had success with.
- 8/7/2012
- by Steve James
- Indiewire
Back in June we learned the director of Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters was working on getting a new documentary together called Generation Food, a project focusing on the global food system in the 21st century and directly ties into food sovereignty activist Raj Patel's upcoming book of the same. But in the meantime, Steve James is returning to the world of sports again with Head Games, a film that looks at the overlooked effects of head trauma suffered by athletes in a culture that essentially demands that they leave that sort of concern on the field. Looks like yet another truly eye-opening documentary from James. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Steve James' Head Games, found via Thompson on Hollywood: From acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters) and award-winning producer Bruce Sheridan, Head Games takes a deeper look at the devastating and long-term effects of concussions in all sports.
- 8/1/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
We certainly didn’t hide our love for documentarian Steve James’ film, “The Interrupters,” in 2011 – it was mentioned on at least one Playlist member's best of 2011 list coverages and we were a little bummed it didn’t receive any Oscar love – and his 1994 effort, “Hoop Dreams,” is one of the finest entries of the sports doc genre of all time. It remained to be seen what James would be up to next, and now word has arrived, and it's an intriguing one with some early details hitting the web. James and bestselling author of “The Value of Nothing,” Raj Patel, are entering the world of crowdsourcing for their ambitious multimedia project entitled “Generation Food” that will involve a documentary, book, and more, which according to their IndieGoGo page is attempting to tell a plethora of stories concerning individuals who are fighting to fix “a broken food system today so that everyone can eat.
- 7/10/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
He directed 2 of the most reverred documentaries made in the last 20 years (you'll likely find both of them on many lists of top documentaries of all time - 1994's Hoop Dreams and 2011's The Interrupters), and now director Steve James will continue his exploration of class, economic division, education, values in a new documentary with British economist, writer, activist Raj Patel that will focus specifically on what they describe as "fixing a broken food system today so that everyone can eat tomorrow." Titled the Generation Food project, here's a summary: Changing the food system couldn’t be more urgent. All signs point to that conclusion, whether...
- 7/9/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Steve James could have simply hanged his hat on Hoop Dreams and secured his place in documentary history, but, with last year’s highly-acclaimed The Interrupters (which you can watch here), it’s evident that he’s got plenty left to say. Now, DocChannelBlog (via FirstShowing) reports that he’s channeling efforts toward Generation Food, a piece — based on Raj Patel‘s forthcoming book — that’s slated to “focus on the global food system in the 21st century.”
Here’s how a synopsis breaks it down:
“We want to fix the world’s food system. We’ll explore how to do that with unexpected stories from unlikely people discovering unbounded ways to feed the planet. Raj Patel’s forthcoming book, Generation Food, takes a global look at how different generations are caring for one another over a shared table, making sure that there’s enough good food for everyone. Like the book,...
Here’s how a synopsis breaks it down:
“We want to fix the world’s food system. We’ll explore how to do that with unexpected stories from unlikely people discovering unbounded ways to feed the planet. Raj Patel’s forthcoming book, Generation Food, takes a global look at how different generations are caring for one another over a shared table, making sure that there’s enough good food for everyone. Like the book,...
- 6/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Aside from delivering the praised documentary Hoop Dreams, director Steve James has been busy making the rounds at festivals with his documentary The Interrupters, which follows three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. But since that film is already in the can, James is already getting to work on his next documentary feature in the form of Generation Food. Doc Channel Blog reports the project will focus on the global food system in the 21st century and directly ties into food sovereignty activist Raj Patel's upcoming book of the same. More below! The film is still in development, and actually looking for dditional support for preliminary research and travel costs which you can see listed on the project’s page at the Kartemquin Films site, James' production banner, if you want to help out. Here's the film's official synopsis: We...
- 6/1/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Reviewed by James Scarborough
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by James Scarborough
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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