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Beef Inc.
directed by Carmen Garcia, fl. 1988; produced by Éric Michel, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1999), 50 mins
A struggle for control of the world food market is waging, and the battle promises to escalate in the 21st century. This documentary by Carmen Garcia examines how a handful of companies have come to dominate beef production and distribution in North America. This film gives a voice to independent cattle producers...
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directed by Carmen Garcia, fl. 1988; produced by Éric Michel, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1999), 50 mins
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A struggle for control of the world food market is waging, and the battle promises to escalate in the 21st century. This documentary by Carmen Garcia examines how a handful of companies have come to dominate beef production and distribution in North America. This film gives a voice to independent cattle producers who, unable to compete with the corporations, find themselves being squeezed out of the industry.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Éric Michel, National Film Board of Canada, Luis DeCespedes, fl. 2003
Author / Creator
Carmen Garcia, fl. 1988
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Speaker / Narrator
Luis DeCespedes, fl. 2003
Topic / Theme
Corporate farms, Butchering, Public health, Food industry, Farmers, Livestock, Cattle, Current Affairs
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1999 by the National Film Board of Canada
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The Farmer and the Chef
directed by Michael Whalen, fl. 1999; produced by Michael Whalen, fl. 1999 (San Jose, CA: Whalen Films, 2015), 1 hour 6 mins
David Kinch of Manresa Restaurant is a world famous chef with a new project, aiming to create a two-star Michelin dining experience that reflects the Northern Californian culture he loves. Cynthia Sandberg of Love Apple Farms is a farmer who has dedicated her life to creating sustainably produced and impeccably nu...
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directed by Michael Whalen, fl. 1999; produced by Michael Whalen, fl. 1999 (San Jose, CA: Whalen Films, 2015), 1 hour 6 mins
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David Kinch of Manresa Restaurant is a world famous chef with a new project, aiming to create a two-star Michelin dining experience that reflects the Northern Californian culture he loves. Cynthia Sandberg of Love Apple Farms is a farmer who has dedicated her life to creating sustainably produced and impeccably nurtured ingredients. Will the collaboration between these two food geniuses create a world-class restaurant, or will their differences d...
David Kinch of Manresa Restaurant is a world famous chef with a new project, aiming to create a two-star Michelin dining experience that reflects the Northern Californian culture he loves. Cynthia Sandberg of Love Apple Farms is a farmer who has dedicated her life to creating sustainably produced and impeccably nurtured ingredients. Will the collaboration between these two food geniuses create a world-class restaurant, or will their differences destroy both the farmer and the chef? The Farmer & The Chef follows this ambitious pair as they work together to make the perfect biodynamic meal. It delves into their shared passion for sustainable farming and quality product, showing their return to the old values of farm-grown produce while never shying away from the latest techniques. The film provides excellent examples of how farms and restaurants do business, following Cynthia's move from a 2-acre garden to an 80-acre farm with over 300 products to keep up with Chef Kinch as he increases his cooking ten-fold. The documentary details the in-depth interdependence of farms and restaurants, and, above all, emphasizes the respectful relationship between the chef, the farmer, and the land they both depend on for survival.
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Date Written / Recorded
2015
Field of Study
Cooking
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Michael Whalen, fl. 1999
Author / Creator
Michael Whalen, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Whalen Films
Topic / Theme
United States Cuisine, Restaurants, Farm management, Farming, Farmers, Vegetables, Vegetable gardens, Organic farming, Farm-to-table movement, Sustainable agriculture
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by Michael Whalen
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Freedom
directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Joshua Tickell; produced by Green Planet Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 1 hour 32 mins
In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Louisiana native Josh Tickell and his wife Rebecca take an international journey to investigate alternatives to fossil fuels.
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directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Joshua Tickell; produced by Green Planet Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 1 hour 32 mins
Description
In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Louisiana native Josh Tickell and his wife Rebecca take an international journey to investigate alternatives to fossil fuels. Adult College High School Junior High School
Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Green Planet Productions
Author / Creator
Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Joshua Tickell
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Chemical engineering, Scientific research, Agriculture, Renewable energy sources, Energy industry, Maize
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 Green Planet Productions. Used by permission of Filmakers Library.
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My Uncle's Tatala
(Taiwan: Cineminga, 2016), 51 mins
Being grateful is the biggest asset of the Tao people, for the fact that they understand how to cultivate natural resources with diligent work. The Tao director recorded the making of the TATALA (laminated boat) in a documentary that also carries the deepest messages of love and affection.
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(Taiwan: Cineminga, 2016), 51 mins
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Being grateful is the biggest asset of the Tao people, for the fact that they understand how to cultivate natural resources with diligent work. The Tao director recorded the making of the TATALA (laminated boat) in a documentary that also carries the deepest messages of love and affection.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Cineminga
Topic / Theme
Social customs, Artisanal fishing, Agrarian life, Yami (Taiwan)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2016 Cineminga
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Quiet Fight, Episode 5, The Right to Land
directed by Berte Hilmo, fl. 2013; produced by Lise Borchgrevink, 1956-, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, in Quiet Fight, Episode 5 (Norway: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, 2013), 29 mins
Norwegian documentary. Niila is reindeer herder and loves his reindeer. Now there are plans to start a new mine in the middle of his pastures. Niila think it will ruin his future. In Kiruna, Hammerfest, and Russia, we meet people who have opinions about who owns Lapland. (5: 6)
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directed by Berte Hilmo, fl. 2013; produced by Lise Borchgrevink, 1956-, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, in Quiet Fight, Episode 5 (Norway: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, 2013), 29 mins
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Norwegian documentary. Niila is reindeer herder and loves his reindeer. Now there are plans to start a new mine in the middle of his pastures. Niila think it will ruin his future. In Kiruna, Hammerfest, and Russia, we meet people who have opinions about who owns Lapland. (5: 6)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Lise Borchgrevink, 1956-, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Berte Hilmo, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Series
Quiet Fight
Topic / Theme
Mining industry, Reindeer, Herders, Property rights, Land use, Saami
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 Norsk Rikskringkasting AS (NRK) FF22
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Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade
directed by Michel Moreau and Jean-Marc Masseaut (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 55 mins
From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New Wor...
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directed by Michel Moreau and Jean-Marc Masseaut (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 55 mins
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From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. Africans were deported by the millions, not only by the French, but by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, starting as earl...
From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. Africans were deported by the millions, not only by the French, but by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, starting as early as the 15th century. In this important historical film, the grim details of the slave trade are made real for a modern audience. Paintings, documents and artifacts recount the immensely profitable trade that enriched the great port cities of Europe as it decimated the African people. None of the tropical colonies would have prospered had it not been for merciless use of slave labor. Without resorting to polemics, The Shackles of Memory evokes a chilling reality that reverberates today. College Adult
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Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Michel Moreau, Jean-Marc Masseaut
Date Published / Released
1994, 1996
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Plantation life, Slave trade, Slavery, Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804, American History, Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Early National Era (1790–1828), Colonial Era (1650–1765), Early Modern Period (1450–1750), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Sugar: The Rules of the Game
produced by Meritxell Ribas, Televisió de Catalunya (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 54 mins
Sugar examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of ind...
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produced by Meritxell Ribas, Televisió de Catalunya (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 54 mins
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Sugar examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of individuals.Antonio Maolela cuts sugar cane on a plantation in Mozambique. He earns about two euros a day working from dawn til dusk. Hono...
Sugar examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of individuals.Antonio Maolela cuts sugar cane on a plantation in Mozambique. He earns about two euros a day working from dawn til dusk. Honorio Valdunciel is a farmer from Zamora, Spain whose main source of income comes from growing sugar beet. Though he makes a decent income, it requires hard work and much investment. The future of both men is tied to the controversial price of sugar in world markets. Sugar prices in the European Union and the U.S. are highly protected by tariffs which block competition. Their internal price of sugar is three times higher than international market prices because beet sugar is much more expensive than cane sugar.Paradoxically, Europe is the world's biggest exporter of sugar because of subsidies. This lowers world market prices and makes things even harder for more efficient Third World producers. Many southern countries, organizations and NGOs have publicly denounced what they see as unfair international trade rules which favor the rich. College Adult
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Meritxell Ribas, Televisió de Catalunya
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Agriculture, Industry, Other Crop Farming, Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing, Business & Economics
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara
directed by Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015 and Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014; produced by Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015 and Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014, Sierra Tarahumara Project (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2001), 51 mins
This powerful and eye-opening documentary takes up where films like Traffic leave off. It examines the plight of the indigenous Tarahumara people of northern Mexico, who are oppressed by criminal drug lords and and trapped in a web of rampant deforestation, crippling drug wars, and governmental corruption. In the...
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directed by Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015 and Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014; produced by Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015 and Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014, Sierra Tarahumara Project (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2001), 51 mins
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This powerful and eye-opening documentary takes up where films like Traffic leave off. It examines the plight of the indigenous Tarahumara people of northern Mexico, who are oppressed by criminal drug lords and and trapped in a web of rampant deforestation, crippling drug wars, and governmental corruption. In the booming post-NAFTA Mexican economy, the overlapping interests of the World Bank and the drug cartels threaten to change forever one of...
This powerful and eye-opening documentary takes up where films like Traffic leave off. It examines the plight of the indigenous Tarahumara people of northern Mexico, who are oppressed by criminal drug lords and and trapped in a web of rampant deforestation, crippling drug wars, and governmental corruption. In the booming post-NAFTA Mexican economy, the overlapping interests of the World Bank and the drug cartels threaten to change forever one of the most traditional cultures in the Americas. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this extraordinary film blends murder mystery, keen ethnographic observation, and courageous undercover investigative reporting to demonstrate how issues of racism, international development policies, judicial and police corruption, and the failed War on Drugs surround the public assassination of an important Tarahumara leader and human rights advocate. The Tarahumara are poor subsistence farmers who live in isolated villages in the rugged Sierra hillsides and canyons about 300 miles south of Texas, in a large area known as the Copper Canyon. In the 1990s a World Bank forestry project began building logging roads into some of the last old-growth forests in the region. Seizing this opportunity, drug lords began a campaign of terror and murder against the Tarahumara, stealing their lands to sell to loggers and forcing the Tarahumara to grow marijuana and opium for them. Native people who resist or speak out against the "narcotrafficantes" are murdered or threatened with death. But Edwin Bustillos, an outside human rights organizer, and a group of indigenous leaders vow to fight back. Working with Federal Attorney General Teresa Jardi, they risk their lives to gather witness statements and attempt to stop the wave of violence and land takeovers. But when a local drug boss who is implicated in the murders of more than a dozen Tarahumara leaders is indicted, he receives a full pardon in advance from a Federal judge and becomes immune from prosecution. "Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara" will provide a wealth of relevant material and inspire passionate discussion in a wide range of courses in Latin American studies, cultural anthropology, development and Third-world studies, and environmental issues. It was produced by Robert Brewster and Felix Gehm.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015, Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014, Sierra Tarahumara Project, Peter Coyote, 1941-
Author / Creator
Felix Gehm, fl. 2001-2015, Robert M. Brewster, fl. 2001-2014
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Berkeley Media
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Coyote, 1941-
Topic / Theme
Economic, social and cultural rights, Assassinations, Logging, Political corruption, Drug trafficking, Farmers, Tarahumara
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001 Berkeley Media
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Water Puppetry in Vietnam: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World
directed by Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012; produced by Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012 (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2012), 32 mins
The ancient tradition of water puppetry has gained worldwide attention in recent years for its lively and unique reflection of agrarian life in the wet-rice villages of northern Vietnam. As water puppetry has grown in popularity among tourists, modern practitioners have altered key components of their performances...
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directed by Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012; produced by Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012 (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2012), 32 mins
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The ancient tradition of water puppetry has gained worldwide attention in recent years for its lively and unique reflection of agrarian life in the wet-rice villages of northern Vietnam. As water puppetry has grown in popularity among tourists, modern practitioners have altered key components of their performances in terms of both content and format in order to appeal to Western tourists. This insightful and original ethnographic documentary expl...
The ancient tradition of water puppetry has gained worldwide attention in recent years for its lively and unique reflection of agrarian life in the wet-rice villages of northern Vietnam. As water puppetry has grown in popularity among tourists, modern practitioners have altered key components of their performances in terms of both content and format in order to appeal to Western tourists. This insightful and original ethnographic documentary explores the complex interplay between the rise and development of the international tourism industry and the production of culture in the performance of Vietnamese water puppetry. The film, in the words of Prof. Lauren Meeker, of SUNY New Paltz, 'addresses important issues in cultural heritage, tourism, reflexivity, and collaborative filmmaking. It sets up a contrast between the extractive process of 'collecting' heritage on film in which the finished product is not shared with the film subjects, and a collaborative filmmaking process in which the subjects are given the chance to comment upon academic films that have been made about them and then to represent their own culture by making their own short films.' The objective of the Water Puppetry filmmaking team was to return a series of government-made films about the ancient tradition of water puppetry to the village of Bao Ha in the Red River Delta in order to make this invaluable cultural heritage available to the very community recorded in the films. A community screening of these original films was organized and villagers were encouraged to express their opinions about them. Five villagers were subsequently selected and trained to make films of their own about water puppetry. The filmmaking team then organized a second community screening, but this time, the featured films were made by community members themselves. In a powerfully symbolic way, this second set of films represents the process of digital repatriation traveling full circle. The hope was that this collaboration would serve as a model for ethnographic filmmaking, as more and more historically marginalized peoples gain the skills, technology, and need for a fuller understanding of their own past as well as a means to articulate their present and future.Water Puppetry in Vietnam is a rich, complex, and thought-provoking work that will captivate students and generate discussion in a wide variety of courses in cultural anthropology and ethnography, Asian studies, and development and tourism studies. It was produced and directed by Sam Pack, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kenyon College.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012
Author / Creator
Sam Pack, fl. 1999-2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Berkeley Media
Topic / Theme
Tourism industry, Agrarian life, Puppets and puppet shows, Vietnamese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Berkeley Media
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