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Watch our 2024 Virtual Interviews

a look at PREVIOUS YEARS

 Scroll down to watch the speaker interviews from previous years to learn more about the films we featured, the organizers who tirelessly work towards a more just food system, why we created this festival and why it's so important to the work we do at the Center. 

FJFF 2023  |  FJFF 2022  |  FJFF 2021  |  FJFF 2020

FJFF 2023

All featured films:

Food Chains, El Susto, Migrant Dreams, Seeding Change 

MIGRANT DREAMS | INTERVIEW | 8.22.23

Featured Speaker:

 Sonia Singh, codirector of the Food Chain Worker’s Alliance. Website: foodchainworkers.org 

FOOD CHAINS | INTERVIEW | 8.23.23

 Featured Speaker:

Amelia Ceja, President and CEO of Ceja Vineyards and featured in the film Food Chains. 

Website: www.cejavineyards.com 

FJFF 2022

All featured films:

Poisoning Paradise, Fruits of Labor, RETURN, From Gangs to Gardens , 

The Seed Saver, I’m Just A Layman in Pursuit of Justice: Black Farmers Fight Against the USDA

RETURN | INTERVIEW | 8.25.22

 Featured Speakers:

Andrea John Spako— Featured in the film RETURN: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health and Spirit, Andrea is a health and exercise specialist, yoga instusing training to encourage sustainable, plant-rich foods in the Seneca Nation of Indians.

Jennifer Gauthier— Featured in the film RETURN: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health and Spirit, Jennifer is the Community, Natural Resources, and Economic Development Educatorfor the Menominee County/Nation.

I'M JUST A LAYMAN | INTERVIEW | 8.25.22

Featured Speakers:

Waymon Hinson— Writer and co-producer of I’m Just a Layman in Pursuit of Justice: Black Farmers Fight Against the USDA, advisor for the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees and advocate for the Justice for Black Farmers Group.

Shoun Hill— Writer and director of I’m Just a Layman in Pursuit of Justice: Black Farmers Fight Against the USDA, photographer, and Visiting Professor of the University of Nebraska.

FJFF 2021

All featured films:

Truly Texas Mexican, The Ants & The Grasshopper, The Harvest/La Cosecha, SEED: The Untold Story

TRULY TEXAS MEXICAN | INTERVIEW | 9.16.21

  Featured Speakers:

Adán Medrano, Executive Producer, Writer & Author

Christine Ortega, President & CEO of Piquin Properties

THE ANTS & THE GRASSHOPPER | INTERVIEW | 9.17.21

Featured Speakers:

Raj Patel, Filmmaker, Co-director & Author

Anita Chitaya, Narrator & Writer, Farm Owner and Co-founder of Soils, Food & Healthy Communities (SFHC)

Esther Lupafya, Doctor and Co-founder of Soils, Food & Healthy Communities (SFHC)

Dr. Rachel Bezner Kerr, Researcher for Soils, Food & Healthy Communities (SFHC)

FJFF 2020

All featured films:

Gather, Invisible Vegan, Dolores, Urban Roots

WELCOME TO THE FJFF 2020

A Welcome message from the Center for Biological Diversity's Senior Food Campaigner, Jennifer Molidor

GATHER | INTERVIEW | 9.24.20

Featured Speakers:

Sanjay Rawal (Director)

Twila Cassadore (San Carlos Apache Tribal Activist)

Samuel Gensaw, III (Director of the Ancestral Guard)

INVISIBLE VEGAN | INTERVIEW | 9.25.20

Featured Speakers:

Jasmine Leyva (Director)

lauren Ornelas (Founder & Director, Food Empowerment Project)

Kat Lopez (Veggie Mijas, Activistas de la Tierra)

DOLORES | INTERVIEW | 9.26.20

Featured Speakers:

Dolores Huerta (Legendary Activist)

Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli (Farmworker Association of Florida)

Alfonso Chavez (Food Justice Advocate)

URBAN ROOTS | INTERVIEW | 9.27.20

Featured Speakers:

Jacqui Patterson (NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program)

JoVonna Johnson-Cooke (Maitu Foods)

Eugene Cooke (Grow Where You Are)

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