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2014 Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival - October 4 (The Last Ocean, No Land No Food No Life, The Sower/Sugar Shack, Bean to Bar)
Films All Day @ The Civic Theater including the Festival's Quebec on Film event, the BITE Truck Poutine Bar, and the closing Local Chocolate-Maker Showcase
2:00pm The Last Ocean
4:00pm No Land No Food No Life
5:30pm Dinner @ BITE Truck Poutine Bar
7:00pm Quebec on Film: Sugar Shack / The Sower (Le Semeur)
9:00pm Bean to Bar (and Local Chocolate-Maker Showcase)
Tickets: $10 per film (or bundle pricing)
2pm
The Last Ocean (New Zealand, 2012, 87 minutes): The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that teems with life whales, seals and penguins carving out a place on the very edge of existence. Californian ecologist David Ainley has been traveling to the Ross Sea to study this unique ecosystem for more than thirty years. He has written scientific papers describing it as a 'living laboratory'. Largely untouched by humans, it is one of the last places where the delicate balance of nature prevails. But an international fishing fleet has recently found its way to the Ross Sea. It is targeting Antarctic toothfish, sold as Chilean sea bass in up-market restaurants around the world. The catch is so lucrative it is known as white gold. Ainley knows that unless fishing is stopped the natural balance of the Ross Sea will be lost forever. He rallies his fellow scientists and meets up with a Colorado nature photographer and New Zealand filmmaker who also share a deep passion for this remote corner of the world. Together they form 'the Last Ocean' and begin a campaign taking on the commercial fishers and governments in a race to protect Earth's last untouched ocean from our insatiable appetite for fish. Winner Best Feature, 2013 Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival; Winner Best Call2Action Film, 2013 Boulder International Film Festival
4pm
No Land No Food No Life (Canada, 2013, 75 minutes): A year after The Carbon Rush, activist filmmaker Amy Miller is back with a hard-hitting documentary about the excesses of globalized agri-business. Filmed in several countries, it exposes the workings and disastrous impacts of the usurpation of land by the industry's giant corporations. In the perverse logic of forced globalization, local farmers have no choice but to surrender their land to one of the handful of multinationals that control the world's food reserves. With a foundation of solid research and numerous field interviews among local populations, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, narrated by Neve Campbell, updates us on one of the greatest scandals of our time, the root cause of a crisis of rampant malnutrition. Official Selections, 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival , 2013 International Documentary Film Festival, 2013 Montreal International Documentary Festival
7pm
Le Semeur (The Sower) (Canada, 2013, 77min) : A portrait of artist and seed producer Patrice Fortier, who dedicates his passion and expertise to preserving plant biodiversity. He likes beets, especially hardy varieties that can stand up to a strong wind. He admires independence in a plant. He looks over his carrots with the same patience and meticulousness as he harvests seeds from his squash. Sometimes, he dreams about a certain cherry tree whose genetic legacy he wants to preserve and spread. Not to mention his pride in his Polish rutabagas. Patrice Fortier isn't crazy, he's just seriously passionate about his work. Living on his company farm, La société des plantes, in the Kamouraska Valley, he is preserving and propagating rare and forgotten seeds in order to restore vitality and variety to our agricultural heritage. Directed by Julie Perron with uncommon elegance and assurance, Le Semeur gives us a fascinating taste of Fortier's intensely lived days.
Sugar Shack (USA, 2013, 14min): The "Sugar Shack" is a Quebecois institution. This award-winning documentary short explores the business, culture, history, heritage and food of Sucrerie de la Montagne, a Canadian maple farm, at the peak of maple season. Official Selections, 2012 NYC/Chicago Food Film Festivals
9pm
Bean to Bar (USA, 2013, 58min): Bean to Bar focuses on the artisan chocolate makers renaissance in the United States. Offering exotic tastes, textures and variety unavailable in our industrialized food industry, these artisan chocolate makers are celebrated and praised by food critics and chocolate lovers alike. Their passion for excellence through quality over quantity and a working relationship with the farmers, has led to a modern day revival of chocolate's mystery and allure.
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719 Vernon St.
Nelson, BC V1L 2B9
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