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Friday, November 20th
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Palmer "Local Food, Local Harvest" Film Fest
Join Palmer Arts Council from Thursday, November 19th through Sunday, November 22nd for their first "Local Food, Local Harvest" Film Fest. The Film Fest is at the Strangebird Consulting Office in downtown Palmer.
"Eating Alaska - Saturday, 7/21 at 7pm;
"Ingredients" - Sunday, 11/22 at 3pm.
After the Sunday showing there will be a discussion about women in agriculture with Cynthia Vignetti. Suggested donations are $10-15 for all films except for Sunday, which is free!
Contact: Bridgette J.Preston
phone 907-745-2846
e-mail: preston@gci.net
Dinner & A Movie
CP Cinemas & Ballygiblin's Restaurant
Carleton Place, Ontario
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
Arctic Circle Film Festival
Eating Alaska Screening
Kotzebue, Alaska
Tuesday, November 24th 7 pm
Contact: Linda Jeschke
Chief of Interpretation
Western Arctic National Parklands
Phone: 907/442-8321
E-mail: Linda_Jeschke@nps.gov
Fairbanks Eating Alaska Screening
Schaible Auditorium, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Tuesday, November 24th 7 pm
Sponsored by the Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market and the UAF Coalition for Peace and Justice
MORE ON THE EAT LOCAL FILM SERIES IN ONTARIO
Ballygiblin's restaurant owner, Roger Weldon organized this series. Weldon says, "My idea is to try to help generate some awareness about why we do what we do in supporting local. This Canadian "Eat Local' film series offers a dinner/show package, or you can just catch the movie where there will also be a wine tasting. Weldon decided it was time to offer a series of food-themed documentaries after coming back from a Terra Madre conference. Terra Madre is a network of groups committed to producing quality food with responsible and sustainable practices.
The series opened in October with the classic Big Night starring Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub.
Eating Alaska is second up, to followed by:
The World According to Monsanto
a documentary that looks at the global corporate giant.
Food, Inc.
how the world has changed since multinational corporations took over global food production
Mondovino
how corporations have tried to bring assimilation into the world of wine production.
The Future of Food
examining how food itself has been changed by technology.
From The Canadian Gazette
Ellen Frankenstein, on 11.20.09 @ 17:55AKT [link]
Wednesday, November 4th
PROVOKING QUESTIONS, ART AND SCREENINGS
CONVERSATIONS AND ART
After I got back from the communities of Klukwan and Haines, Alaska recently, I had a thought: what could be more intriguing than on the one hand provoking rural Alaskan kids, who have grown up fishing and hunting, to talk about why someone would be a vegetarian. At the same time, we have been provoking urban festival goers, sustainability advocates and vegetarians to ask themselves if eating locally meant hunting, could they pull the trigger?
Meanwhile, we are finishing up and testing out a guide for screening and discussion. That has meant doing things with kids like asking them to map their communities and what they do outdoors, be it pick berries, gather seaweed or play on the beach. We have had elementary kids drawing, writing and talking about the foods they get locally, the foods they buy at the store and what they'd miss about their community if they left. For kids in Alaska, the latter often brings up things like mountains, ocean and forest. What they would miss if the moved, can connect to what they had for dinner the night before. Along the way, I found myself working on spelling and listening skills with middle schoolers and being amazed at all the things audience engagement and grassroots outreach can lead to.
EATING ALASKA SCREENINGS AND BROADCAST AHEAD
From a synagogue on the East coast to a celebration of deer in Alaska, we're organizing screenings and welcoming more. Looks like we'll be offering the film EATING ALASKA nationally through PBS in the spring sometime too. We encourage schools, universities, public libraries and community groups to order copies from New Day Films the national self-distribution coop we work with and use the film to talk about ethics, gender roles, food choices, sustainability and more.
American Conservation Film Festival
Sat November 7, 2009 1 P.M.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Green Reel
Film Series at
Congregation Agudas Achim
901 North Main Street, Attleboro, MA
Sunday November 8, 200 7:00 p.m.
Craig Alaska
as part of the Deer Celebration
Craig High School
Monday, November 9, 2009 7 PM
With filmmaker, Ellen Frankenstein
Red Rock Film Festival
Zion Flix II: Dilemmas for Puzzled People
St. George & Springdale, Utah
Nov. 13, 2009
Dinner & A Movie
CP Cinemas & Ballygiblin's Restaurant
Carleton Place, Ontario
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
Palmer Arts Council Food Film Festival
Q & A with Amy Pettit from the Division of Ag. and DeliciousDave, local caterer and produce purveyor
Saturday, Nov. 21
Contact: Bridgette J.Preston
preston@gci.net
Fairbanks, Alaska
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
Schaible Auditorium, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hosted by the Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market
Santa Clara Film Series
Nov 27- 29
Santa Clara, Cuba
Havana International Film Festival
Dec 5-(TBA)
Cuba
Reel Women, Austin, TX
Sunday, December 6, 2009
With Filmmakers Ellen Frankenstein & Shirley Thompson
1:00-3:00pm Workshop on Documentary Filmmaking
3:30pm Screening
Location: The Independent, 501 Brushy, Austin 78702
Food, Q&A following screening
Little Rock, Arkansas
December 10, 2009
Filmmaker, Ellen Frankenstein and co-star, Spencer Severson, attending
Details forthcoming.
Ellen Frankenstein, on 11.04.09 @ 11:39AKT [link]
