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Food, Inc
Food, Inc.
“Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato.” Michael Pollan (from the book named Omnivore’s Dilemma)
Today, the lifespan of a chicken grown for the American food industry is six weeks. Grown in cages too small for them to move, they live in perpetual darkness. They are so fat they cannot stand up. Ever. An American farmer cannot grow his own corn anymore - legally speaking, there is only Monsanto’s genetically modified and patented corn. The meat America eats comes from only four different corporations. As chicken breasts get bigger and tomatoes are genetically engineered not to go bad, 73,000 Americans fall ill from powerful new strains of E. coli every year, obesity levels are skyrocketing, and adult diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Food, Inc. is about where the food Americans purchase at their grocery stores really comes from, and what it means for the health of future generations. It is also a story about the comfortable relationships between businesses as usual and the government - against consumer health, the American farmer, worker safety, animal rights and the environment. Particularly at this time of campaigning against the proposed introduction of GM foods in Turkey, this horror movie of our civilization is a chilling wake-up call. The dangerous truth about what we eat is connected to other truths about industry, exploitation and greed. Food, Inc. is eye opening, shocking and very often, disgusting.
2009 Gotmam Awards: Best Documentary
Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival
Hong Kong Film Festival
About the Director
Robert Kenner
Robert Kenner, Emmy winning screenwriter,
director and producer, was born in New York in
1950. His career started in 1971 as an assistant
cinematographer. He produced and directed large
number of series for National Geographic. For his
notable work ‘Road to Memphis’ (2003), based
on the Martin Scorsese series called ‘The Blues’,
he worked with Richard Pearce. In addition to
winning the Emmy for exceptional merit in Non-
Fiction Film-Making, his previous documentary
Two Days in October (2005) was awarded the
2006 Peabody and the Grierson for British Docu-
mentary.
SCREENINGS
| 15.02.2010 19:30 AFM Fitaş Salon 1 |
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| 21.02.2010 17:30 AFM Fitaş Salon 1 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Robert Kenner ()
- Cast
- Eric Schlosser
- Michael Pollan
- Gary Hirshberg
- Joel Salatin
- Music
- Mark Adler
- Production Co.
- Participant Media
- River Road Entertainment
- Distributor
- Fortissimo Films
- Cinematography
- Richard Pearce
- Editing
- Kim Roberts
- Producer
- Robert Kenner ()
- Elise Pearlstein
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