Event

URBAN ROOTS

Do Something Reel Film Festival
Thursday, April 28 at 7:30pm
URBAN ROOTS
Speaker(via Skype): Filmmaker Mark MacInnis & reception
Food Provided by Whole Foods Market

The industrial powerhouse of a lost American era has died,
and the skeleton left behind is present-day Detroit. But now,
against all odds in the empty lots, in the old factory yards,
and in-between the sad, sagging blockS, seeds of change are
taking root. A small group of dedicated citizens, allied with
environmental and academic groups, have started an urban
environmental movement with the potential to transform not just
a city, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban
Roots is the story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working to
fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a
city where people - as in much of the county - have found themselves
cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast
food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with
processed food from thousands of miles away. 2010, USA, 90 min.