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Slow Food Springfield Film Festival

Slow Food Springfield Film Festival

• Location: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Springfield
• Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Free and open to the public

Slow Food Springfield, the University of Illinois Extension, and the Illinois State Museum are presenting the Food Film Festival on January 24, 2009 at the Illinois State Museum located at Spring and Edwards Streets in Springfield. We will be presenting films about our most important life sustaining resource - food. The purpose of the film festival is to both educate the public on issues regarding our current food systems including modern food production, distribution  and consumption, and their effects on our health, the environment, and human rights, and to learn about food in different cultures. There is no charge to attend these films.

10:00 Welcome

10:15-10:30 The True Cost of Food

The True Cost of Food is a 15 minute educational and entertaining DVD about sustainable food. (https://www.truecostoffood.org/)

10:40-11:10 Baking Bread

A short documentary by Rose Spinelli, which prompted by her inability to make the traditional bread of her Sicillian ancestors, allowed her to make peace with the past. (https://www.mediarights.org/film/baking_bread)

11:20-11:40 Farm to Market: A Journey of Change and Independence

This film highlights innovative marketing approaches by sustainable farmers across America.

11:50-12:10 Yum, Yum, Yum - A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking

This film celebrates of rural Cajun and Creole Louisiana in terms of tasting its food and listening to its music. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100997/)

12:20-1:20 Broken Limbs - Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer

This film examines the plight of apple growers in this age of globalization and explores sustainable agriculture. (https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/broke.html)

1:30-3:00 The Future of Food

This film provides an overview of the key questions raised by consumers as they become aware of genetically modified foods. (https://www.thefutureoffood.com/)

3:00-4:00 Garlic is as Good as 10 Mothers

Les Blank filmed this "American garlic revolution" as it happened in 1980. Classic scenes of Alice Waters' Chez Panisse menu in Berkeley which helped propel garlic to the top of the culinary scene, breaking down our nation's long standing taboo against "the stinking rose". (https://thegarlicstore.com/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=productinfo&cPath=36&products_id=279)

For more information, contact Deanna Glosser at deanna_glosser@comcast.net or 217-629-8949.