LET'S EAT! Documentary Shorts
124 min.
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Goat Farm
8:30 pm


Homemade is the Best
Directed by: Slaven Zimbrek - 27 min. - Croatia
Witness the incredibly intense slaughter of a pig on a family farm,- and how each part of the animal is put to use - head to tail.

Dive!
Directed by: Jeremy Seifert - 40 min. - USA
Dive! follows Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good food and uncover a disturbing truth about waste in America. The goal quickly becomes finding out why so much edible food is thrown away instead of being given to those who need it. The result is equal parts entertainment, guerrilla journalism and call to action.

Feeding the Soul at Jones Valley Urban Farm
Directed by: Matthew Graves - 23 min. - USA
The story of a small farm in the middle of a city where big things are happening.

The Sharecroppers
Directed by: Jonathan Shepard - 18 min. - USA
A brief exploration into a world that most city dwellers have never seen, The Sharecroppers explores the quiet struggles of America's chicken farmers as they struggle to provide for themselves and their families. Essentially forced into upgrading their farms, these farmers have no choice but to perpetuate a never-ending cycle of debt - on pain of bankruptcy.

CUD
Directed by: Joe York  -  16 min.  -  USA
'My beef is just like industrial commodity beef except it's healthier, safer, better for the environment, and it tastes better. Other then that it's exactly the same.' says Georgia cattleman Will Harris, featured in CUD. Harris raises grass-fed beef cattle on a small farm that has been in his family since the 1840s. Ten years ago he turned his back on the excesses of the modern beef production system and converted his farm into the first certified organic cattle farm in Georgia.