HEALTH AND LOCAL FOOD:
We invite your participation!
Uprooted the documentary is calling for input and thoughts from the wider community about the connections between our personal health and the health of our communities, economy, and environment. We want you to take a look at the two clips below that explore the connection between personal and environmental health and post a comment letting us know your perspectives.
We also invite you to submit written work in the form of poetry, spoken word, prose, or art and we will select winners to be in the documentary, speaking his/her stories, spoken word, or perspectives. You will also get a green screen shoot, and archival footage for your web page, myspace, blog or whatever.
Here's the idea. We are looking for pieces that include these themes:
connections between poor health and lack of healthy foods in many urban neighborhoods, how people can empower themselves by growing their own food or seeking food from local sources, and the connection between personal health and the health of our environment.
Here are the rough cuts of what we have now. We suggest that you watch the clips below and then add your personal experiences, stories, and perspectives to what we've started with. Submit written work in the blog or you can e-mail work to t brad@gotthenac.org or tom.kondilas@lessproductions.com
UPROOTED- HEALTH PART I
UPROOTED- HEALTH PART II
Food and Health in the City
How can we build a nutritional structure in our urban food deserts?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Call for Submissions! (background)
Uprooted, the documentary that this blog is about, needs written word transitions. OK, let's back it up a second, ideally this blog would serve as the background for the movie, but we're kind of getting everything going at once here.
In 2006, the New Agrarian Center (NAC) and LESS Productions teamed up to make a series of web videos about a number of the NAC's programs and projects. The web videos became more and more connected and ambitious until LESS finally recut the project into one documentary, The Real Low Calorie Diet (TRLCD). It really changed how we looked at the entire project.
TRLCD was about a local food movement, grassroots, activism, the environment, our health, education, urban decay, the economy - you name it. And it had an impact on the people involved with and surrounded by the project.
TRLCD has played at film festivals including The Friends of the Earth Film Series in Honolulu, Hawaii and was a made it to the final round of judging for ITVS.
Uprooted is our second collaboration. Specifically addressing the connection between humans and what they eat, we hope this documentary helps show how easy it is to contribute to change with something as simple as food.
We've been posting rough clips online to show additional funders, enthusiasts and to help promote the movie. We believe that our medium is inherently collaborative and would love to include more artists, disciplines and creativity to Uprooted by including others. Not to mention that a major aspect of this movie and what its about is "community." And we feel that this should not exclude the arts community. So please, check out the submission call, make a comment and tell people about the movie - I mean, we're all in this thing together anyway.
In 2006, the New Agrarian Center (NAC) and LESS Productions teamed up to make a series of web videos about a number of the NAC's programs and projects. The web videos became more and more connected and ambitious until LESS finally recut the project into one documentary, The Real Low Calorie Diet (TRLCD). It really changed how we looked at the entire project.
TRLCD was about a local food movement, grassroots, activism, the environment, our health, education, urban decay, the economy - you name it. And it had an impact on the people involved with and surrounded by the project.
TRLCD has played at film festivals including The Friends of the Earth Film Series in Honolulu, Hawaii and was a made it to the final round of judging for ITVS.
Uprooted is our second collaboration. Specifically addressing the connection between humans and what they eat, we hope this documentary helps show how easy it is to contribute to change with something as simple as food.
We've been posting rough clips online to show additional funders, enthusiasts and to help promote the movie. We believe that our medium is inherently collaborative and would love to include more artists, disciplines and creativity to Uprooted by including others. Not to mention that a major aspect of this movie and what its about is "community." And we feel that this should not exclude the arts community. So please, check out the submission call, make a comment and tell people about the movie - I mean, we're all in this thing together anyway.
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