Food and Film: We Are What We Eat
Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Food and Film is a quarterly series designed to delight the senses and inspire the mind. Curated with renowned chef, activist and cinephile Alice Waters, who will be in-person for the screening, each program in the series draws on Waters’ philosophy that eating, like art, is a political act and that exploring the intersections between the culinary and moving image arts can help illuminate the path toward building more sustainable, thriving communities together.
In this edition of Food and Film we turn the focus onto chef and restaurateur Alice Waters herself and her globally focused, locally driven campaign to change the way we farm, eat and educate. In 2023, Waters visited Japan to mark the first anniversary of the publication there of her book We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto. With its own strong tradition of seasonal cuisine, Japan has been particularly receptive to Waters’ farm-to-table philosophy and the mutual respect between Waters and the chefs and farmers she meets is evident in every exchange. At the heart of this loving documentary, however, is the work of Japanese food activists to bring that philosophy into Japanese classrooms, an effort modeled after Waters’ Edible Schoolyard program.
DCP, color, in Japanese and English with English subtitles, 66 min. Director: Junya Tanaka.
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