FIFTH ANNUAL FOOD JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL 2024
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WATCHED.
Presented by the Center for Biological Diversity
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WATCHED.
Presented by the Center for Biological Diversity
From Oct. 24-27, 2024, we featured four award-winning documentaries and special interviews with filmmakers and activists.
This year's featured films:
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day. Directed by Peter Bratt.
When a corporate hog farm moves in–uninvited–on land her grandfather had purchased after claiming his freedom from slavery, Elsie Herring decides to fight back. But as her rural community becomes the epicenter of the pork industry’s explosion in America, Elsie’s struggle to save her family’s home and heritage turns into a battle against one of the world’s most powerful companies and its deadly pollution.
Directed by Shawn Bannon.
Does the most widely used weed killer in the world cause cancer? Into the Weeds follows the riveting story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrochemical giant, Monsanto (now Bayer), the manufacturer of Roundup herbicide. Blending interviews, trial footage, news coverage and vérité, the film follows the progression of this groundbreaking trial.
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal.
Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snow-birds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella valley. Through intimate glimpses of life on both ends of the Valley, the film uncovers looming environmental and social crises for everyone who call it home, with dire implications for the rest of the country.
Directed by Aaron Maurer and Zach McMillan.
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