Join us for tasty breakfast treats, and inspirational talk by Scott Chaskey and 2 great shorts!
11:00 Breakfast treats
11:45 Talk by Scott Chaskey
12:00 Film: The Soul of a Farmer Q&A with Patty Gentry & Isabella Rossellini
12:45 Film: KELP! Zoom Q/A with Director Caylon Mantia
THE SOUL OF A FARMER
Director/Producer/Editor: Roger Sherman 35 min
The Soul of A Farmer shadows Patty Gentry, a former chef, as she battles to earn a living on her three-acre Early Girl Farm on Long Island. Isabella Rossellini, from whom Patty rents her land tells us, “Patty is the Picasso of vegetables!”
KELP!
Directors: Anna Roberts & Caylon La Mantia 32 min
Under the looming shadow of ecological breakdown, a young aspiring filmmaker goes in search of a surprising super-solution that can help build a better future for humans and the planet. Join her and the crew on an epic visual journey aboard the good ship Gleaner through Britain's rugged coastline, as they discover the power of Kelp to regenerate our coasts, and empower communities.
Soil & Spirit...
As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shapred by daily attention to the earth. Even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. His newest book is a collection of essays written from the perspective as farmer and poet. Come hear his inspiring words.
Thank you to our Docs Equinox Sponsors
• Whitney’s Landscaping • Robins Island Foundation • Wainscott Farms • Equinox• Stephane Samuel & Robert M. Rubin • Marders • Land Rover Southampton • Tee & Charles Addams Foundation • South Fork Animal Hospital• Edible East End
Winner Tribeca Human/Nature Award Winner Best Documentary Audience Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival
Common Ground is a rousing and uplifting feature-length documentary that shows a pathway to transform our unhealthy and corrupt industrial agricultural food system into an ecological way of growing food that can restore our health, our communities, and our climate. The film chronicles the budding “Regenerative Agriculture” movement, a type of farming based on working with nature, instead of against it.
Directed by eco-filmmaking duo, Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell, (FUEL, The Big Fix, Kiss the Ground), the new film features appearances and narration by notable Hollywood talent including Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, and Donald Glover. The star-studded narration is structured as a heartfelt letter to our children’s generation – the very generation who will soon inherit the Earth. The letter, and the film itself, are an urgent message about the harsh realities of our future, as well as a hopeful and practical plan for how to mend the broken systems that dictate human existence on Earth.
Food activist Kate Plumb
Longtime Sag Harbor resident, Kate works to improve our food system. She runs the Sag Harbor and East Hampton Farmers Markets, was one of the early owners of health food store Provisions, co-founded Slow Food East End and the East End Community Organic Farm.
Come hear why Kate believes that 'food is medicine" and why she finds the corpororate takeover of food abhorrent.
Thank you to our Docs Equinox Sponsors
• Whitney’s Landscaping • Robins Island Foundation • Wainscott Farms • Equinox• Stephane Samuel & Robert M. Rubin • Marders • Land Rover Southampton • Tee & Charles Addams Foundation • South Fork Animal Hospital• Edible East End
7:00 Intro with Directors Robert Kenner & Melissa Robledo
7:15 Film: Food Inc. 2: Back for Seconds
FOOD INC. 2
Since the first Oscar-nominated film, Food Inc., multinational corporations have tightened their stronghold on the U.S. government. The system at large has robbed workers of a fair living wage, and profit focused corporations are proliferating a chemically formulated international health crisis by focusing on growing the market for ultra-processed foods.
The film centers around innovative farmers, future-thinking food producers, workers’ rights activists and prominent legislators such as U.S Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these companies head-on to inspire change and build a healthier, more sustainable future.
“When we made the first Food, Inc., we thought that if viewers got to see how our food is made, we could change the food system one bite at a time. Fifteen years later, it’s clear that ethical shopping isn’t enough; that meaningful change is going to require breaking up the handful of very large and very powerful companies that dominate the food industry.”
— Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, Co-Directors
Thank you to our Docs Equinox Sponsors
• Whitney’s Landscaping • Robins Island Foundation • Wainscott Farms • Equinox• Stephane Samuel & Robert M. Rubin • Marders • Land Rover Southampton • Tee & Charles Addams Foundation • South Fork Animal Hospital• Edible East End
