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.
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After viewing all of the clips, I must comment that the fascinating concept here is that these communities are built around their own local organic food sources as others are built around exported, mass-produced, nitrate-rich fodder. Consider most family outings, restaurants, social functions of any sort: they all rely on bringing in food from an oustide source. We are really nomads in this regard, except the difference is that we have easy access to just about any food source out there, thanks to the miracles of twenty-first century transportation. The remarkable aspect of this project is that it takes that concept of food as community literally.
(This may be a bit too scholastic and literary for transition material-- let me know if you're looking for something more consciously poetic, Tom.)
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