Feast On This Film Festival - October 13th - 16th
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Thursday, October 13th
Join us for a progressive dinner starting with a local beer and cheese tasting at Brewtopia at 6pm
Ingredients 7-9pm - The Works Bakery Cafe
Enjoy hearty sandwiches with local ingredients provided by The Works
At the focal point of this movement, and of this film, are the farmers and chefs who are creating a truly sustainable food system. Their collaborative work has resulted in great tasting food and an explosion of consumer awareness about the benefits of eating local. Attention being paid to the local food movement comes at a time when the failings of our current industrialized food system are becoming all too clear. For the first time in history, our children’s generation is expected to have a shorter lifespan than our own. The quality, taste and nutritional value of the food we eat has dropped sharply over the last fifty years. Shipped from ever-greater distances, we have literally lost sight of where our food comes from and in the process we’ve lost a vital connection to our local community and to our health.
Friday, October 14th
Urban Roots 5-7pm - Antioch
Discussion from Community Gardens Connection to follow
“When the story of the urban farmers in Detroit was brought to us, we knew that what they were doing – acting decisively and caring for themselves and their community – basically healing themselves and their neighborhoods through growing food, was that kind of local action that can make the world a better place so we committed to bringing their story to the world.” Leila Conner, Producer Detroit of the automotive days are over, the city has shrunk to half its size but out of the ashes rises a new city and new hope in the form of urban gardens. Urban Roots tells this tale of urban renewal through gardening and farming.
Eating Alaska 7:30-9pm - Toadstool at Colony Mill Marketplace
Refreshments provided!
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and marries a commercial fisherman and deer hunter? Join her on a wry search for a sustainable, healthy and ethical meal. Women try to teach her to hunt, teens gather traditional foods, vegans give cooking lessons, she fishes for wild salmon, scrutinizes food labels with kids and finds toxic chemicals getting into wild foods. With humor and compassion, the documentary Eating Alaska shows natives and non-natives trying to balance buying industrial processed foods with growing their own and living off the land in the 21st century. Made by a former urban vegetarian now living on an island in Alaska, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to where we live and what we put into our mouths.
Saturday, October 15th
Short Films at Prime Roast!
Stop by Prime Roast to view short films about farmers in Maine. Shown at the top up every hour starting at 9 am.
Double feature! 10-11:30am matinee - Keene Public Library, Herberton Hall
Enjoy a discussion lead by farmer Tracie Smith
Ladies of the Land (short film)
Ladies of the Land tells the story of four women who never thought they’d be farmers — but today have dedicated their lives to goats, grains and green beans.
Truck Farm
Based in NYC, this is a whimsical story of a 1986 Dodge pick-up with a mini farm planted in the truck bed. Journey with Truck Farm as they visit other urban and unconventional farms in the city. Fun animation and songs help bring this story to life.
Farm Tour and Film in Walpole!
The Farmer and The Horse 2-5pm - Inn at Walpole Valley Farms
Come see how a sustainable, pasture-based farm works with an hour-long farm tour before the film.
From award-winning journalist Jared Flesher comes The Farmer and the Horse, a film that digs into difficult questions about sustainability, self-sufficiency, and why we do the work we do. Flesher’s film goes beyond the usual platitudes of smiling organic farmers talking about the good life. Farming is hard work, especially if you don’t use a tractor. This is a documentary every young farmer should see. So should everyone who cares about land use, the environment, and good food.
Vanishing of the Bees 7:30-9:30pm - Keene State College, Young Student Center
Join Jodi Turner from Imagine That Honey for a discussion following the film
Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees. Filming across the US, in Europe, Australia and Asia, this documentary examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic loss. Conflicting options abound and after years of research, a definitive answer has not been found to this harrowing mystery.
Sunday, October 16th
Dirt: The Movie 4-6pm - Mole Hill Theater
Antioch’s Rachel Thiet, PhD continues the discussion of soil
Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth’s climate. Dirt is the ultimate natural resource for all life on earth. Yet most humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource. The film offers a vision of a sustainable relationship between Humans and Dirt through profiles of the global visionaries who are determined to repair the damage we’ve done before it’s too late.
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