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.
All featured films:
Featured Speaker:
Jacob Beaton - Indigenous food sovereignty activist, founder of Tea Creek farm, and the main subject of the film Tea Creek
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Leah Penniman – Author of Farming While Black, farmer and co-owner of Soul Fire Farm, and main subject of the film Farming While Black
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Jamey Steiner & Debbie Millikan - Writers and Directors of the film Feeding Change
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Featured Speaker:
Raphael Sbarge - Writer and Director of the film LA Foodways
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Featured Speaker:
Mark Decena - Writer and Director of the film Farming While Black
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Featured Speakers:
Blain Snipstal – Worker-Owner and Timber Framer at Earth-Bound Building Forestry and Farm, and featured in the film Farming While Black
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All featured films:
Dolores, The Smell of Money, Into the Weeds, Invisible Valley
Featured Speaker:
Dolores Huerta - iconic labor leader and organizer, American Civil Rights Activist and main subject of the film Dolores.
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Featured Speaker:
Karen Washington - Food Justice Advocate, Organizer, and Co-owner and Farmer at Rise & Root Farm in Chester, New York.
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Featured Speaker:
Shawn Bannon - Director, Producer, Cinematographer, and Editor of the film The Smell of Money.
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Featured Speaker:
Peter Bratt - Director, Writer and Producer of the film Dolores.
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Featured Speaker:
Jamie Berger – Writer and Producer of the film The Smell of Money.
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Featured Speakers:
Alexis Guild – Vice President of Strategy and Programs at Farmworker Justice and Becca Young – Director of Programs at Farmworker Justice
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Featured Speaker:
Larry Baldwin – Pure Farms, Pure Waters Campaign Coordinator - North Carolina Waterkeeper Alliance and featured in the film The Smell of Money.
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Featured Speaker:
Aaron Maurer – one of the directors of the film Invisible Valley.
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All featured films:
Featured Speaker:
Sonia Singh, codirector of the Food Chain Worker’s Alliance. Website: foodchainworkers.org
Featured Speaker:
Amelia Ceja, President and CEO of Ceja Vineyards and featured in the film Food Chains.
Website: www.cejavineyards.com
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.
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.
Featured Speakers:
Adán Medrano, Executive Producer, Writer & Author
Christine Ortega, President & CEO of Piquin Properties
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)
All featured films:
A Welcome message from the Center for Biological Diversity's Senior Food Campaigner, Jennifer Molidor
Featured Speakers:
Sanjay Rawal (Director)
Twila Cassadore (San Carlos Apache Tribal Activist)
Samuel Gensaw, III (Director of the Ancestral Guard)
Featured Speakers:
Jasmine Leyva (Director)
lauren Ornelas (Founder & Director, Food Empowerment Project)
Kat Lopez (Veggie Mijas, Activistas de la Tierra)
Featured Speakers:
Dolores Huerta (Legendary Activist)
Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli (Farmworker Association of Florida)
Alfonso Chavez (Food Justice Advocate)
Featured Speakers:
Jacqui Patterson (NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program)
JoVonna Johnson-Cooke (Maitu Foods)
Eugene Cooke (Grow Where You Are)
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