Food

Content Project

Two environmental films filled with hope: Tales of the San Joaquin Revision, the total success story of the contemporary restoration of the San Joaquin River after an eighteen-year lawsuit; and Tulare Lake, the prospects for restoring what was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi River.

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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.

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"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.

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The Iraqi Seed Project is a cross-platform media project examining the long history of agriculture in Iraq and the legacy left to farmers in the region after years of war, sanctions and environmental neglect. It consists of a short documentary film, interactive website and real life farmer/seed exchange.

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Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reunites with Chase County, Kansas to experience one of America's most environmentally advanced communities in "Return to PrairyErth." The Center for Independent Documentary is serving as fiscal sponsor for the film project.

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Ipuina Kontatu: The Basque Way is a documentary which explores 25 centuries of Basque culture and considers its preservation as a tale about the twin possibilities of tradition and innovation. The dramatic struggle of adoption and adaptation by which Basque culture has flourished while preserving its ancient roots offers a paradigm by which to consider the essential core of cultural identities and their situation in modern and global society.

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OPEN MINDS OPEN MOUTHS is a one-hour documentary project that presents a multifacted story of a determined community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates and food purveyors in Berkeley, California who are creating the replicable School Lunch Initiative and changing how our children eat.

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A series of award-winning documentaries from China being prepared for US broadcast on LinkTV, PBS stations etc. Programs are stories of communities, families, arts, sustainability, peacemakers, spirituality - ordinary daily life in locations all over China, as beautifully told by local filmmakers and translated and contextualized by Living Earth Television.

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Hammer Simwinga of Zambia, and his American counterparts, Mark and Delia Owens, have devoted their lives to saving the endangered elephant herds in Northern Zambia by converting poachers to respectable trades like sustainable farming, beekeeping, fish farming and cornmilling. This is their story.

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Through the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, WHAT'S "ORGANIC" ABOUT ORGANIC? offers the audience a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.  The film provides insight for certification systems taking root across our society, showing the pitfalls that can arise when idealism is formalized into a label.