The next HSN/Reel News Film-discussion Evening is a Harvest Festival Food Special! Sunday 12th September 2010 7-10pm MOTH Club Valette Street - From Detroit to Cuba to Eigg -
Reel News spent a week in Detroit in August 2010 filming urban food growing projects and this will be their first showing in London of what they filmed. We will also have an original films on Eigg, where local islanders bought out the Laird, and Cuba, where both sets of islanders have had to re focus on how to sustain their communities, and original interveiws with Via Campesina on global sustainability.
Detroit - Reel News 30/40 mins
Cuba - Peak Oil (an edited down version of 20 mins.. normally 80 mins) and some comments form Reel News who recently went to Cuba!
Eigg - Eco-island (Reel News 6:32) "After a community buy out of the laird, the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg is transforming itself into a zero carbon community"
La Via Campesina - Agribusiness and food sovereignty (Reel News 12:32) "La Via Campesina show how switching from agribusiness to organic farming would cut 40% of
global emissions overnight."
"If someone else grows your food, sells you your shirt, owns your house, you'll never be free .." Detroit urban food grower August 2010
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