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Gaining Ground Across Oregon
GAINING GROUND
A New Film on Growing Food, Empowering Communities & Changing Lives
TOURING OREGON THIS FALL:
"Gaining Ground is a warm and wonderful film that journeys into the future of food and agriculture. Hopeful, critical, poetic."
Bill Bigelow, Curriculum Editor, Rethinking Schools
The negative impacts of industrial agriculture are everywhere. The increasing threat of genetically engineered food and the destruction of local communities can make us feel powerless to effect change. GAINING GROUND, a new documentary film by Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein, is an intimate view of rural and urban farmers embracing this challenge.
GAINING GROUND is coming to communities around Oregon this fall. This film presents the personal stories of farmers and activists confronting the challenges of feeding their local communities sustainably grown food. The documentary interweaves experiences of Urban Tilths farmer-activists transforming corners of Richmond, Californias inner city food desert into vibrant community gardens; Sun Gold Farm, a small family farm in rural Oregon converting from commodity dairy to sustainably grown produce and Stalford Seed Farms in the Willamette Valley transitioning from growing grass seed to organic grains. As the film explores these paradigm shifts, it personalizes class, gender, race and environmental justice issues by rooting them within narratives of compelling individuals. While the film is sober about the obstacles to creating change, it points the way toward hope.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and people featured in the film.
View the GAINING GROUND trailer: http://www.gaininggroundmovie.org
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"I loved this film how it rooted big issues within the narratives of such compelling individual personalities."
David Naimon, host of Healthwatch and Between the Covers, KBOO-FM
Filmmakers Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein have been creating film and radio documentaries for over thirty-five years. Their award winning work has been broadcast on public television and radio, screened at international film festivals and distributed through broad grassroots networks.
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LocationSkylight Theater (View)
109 Oak Street
Hood River, OR 97031
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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