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The film does not directly answer her question. One person wrote on a feedback form of a wish the documentary provided more solutions. Is this a problem? No, it is exactly what we intended: what the film can do is trigger conversation and get folks talking to each other about their choices and in the process maybe that can lead to solutions and point people to the resources in their own food sheds.
Eating Alaska showed last weekend at the Anchorage International Film Festival and during the week at the Alaska Public Health Summit. We also "tested" the film on students in environmental studies and anthropology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. While out of the rainforest and closer to Wasilla, Alaska, I not only screened the film, woke to longer darker days, but also learned that Sarah Palin's effort to pardon a turkey is being called "gobblegate."
Meanwhile we continue to get requests for screenings and are working to help communities and groups set up events.
Gary Paul Nahbhan, a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist and the author of the new release Where Our Food Comes From as well as Why Some Like It Hot, Coming Home to Eat kindly writes this about the film:
Eating Alaska makes us ruminate, laugh and stand in awe, all at the same time. Rather than one
more dry polemic on the ethics of eating that attempts to convert you, this film shines the light on the
difficulties of eating sustainably and healthily in one of the richest foodsheds of North America.
Whether you are from the Skin-Yourself-a-Moose state or from the Land of Tofu--or both--you need
to take this journey with Ellen to explore the dilemmas of eating-in-place. It isn't as simple as you
think....it's far more complex than we CAN think....
12/09/2008: "What should I eat? Gobblegate?"
"What should I eat?" A college student asked, with a smile and a puzzled look, after seeing this documentary. She explained she was on her own for the first time and the combination of seeing Eating Alaska and class discussion afterwards prompted her to think about the impact of her choices.The film does not directly answer her question. One person wrote on a feedback form of a wish the documentary provided more solutions. Is this a problem? No, it is exactly what we intended: what the film can do is trigger conversation and get folks talking to each other about their choices and in the process maybe that can lead to solutions and point people to the resources in their own food sheds.
Eating Alaska showed last weekend at the Anchorage International Film Festival and during the week at the Alaska Public Health Summit. We also "tested" the film on students in environmental studies and anthropology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. While out of the rainforest and closer to Wasilla, Alaska, I not only screened the film, woke to longer darker days, but also learned that Sarah Palin's effort to pardon a turkey is being called "gobblegate."
Meanwhile we continue to get requests for screenings and are working to help communities and groups set up events.
Gary Paul Nahbhan, a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist and the author of the new release Where Our Food Comes From as well as Why Some Like It Hot, Coming Home to Eat kindly writes this about the film:
Eating Alaska makes us ruminate, laugh and stand in awe, all at the same time. Rather than one
more dry polemic on the ethics of eating that attempts to convert you, this film shines the light on the
difficulties of eating sustainably and healthily in one of the richest foodsheds of North America.
Whether you are from the Skin-Yourself-a-Moose state or from the Land of Tofu--or both--you need
to take this journey with Ellen to explore the dilemmas of eating-in-place. It isn't as simple as you
think....it's far more complex than we CAN think....
Ellen Frankenstein, on 12.09.08 @ 17:11AKT
