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FREE Screening of “Plant This Movie” Urban Farming Documentary + Q&A with Director Karney Hatch

 

Filmmaker Karney Hatch will be in Ithaca on April 20 and 21 for two screenings of his documentary, "Plant This Movie" (2014), which that examines the evolution and growing impact of urban farming around the world.  Hatch will discuss the film and take audience questions following screenings scheduled for Monday, April 20 at 5:30pm in 160 Mann Library on the Cornell University campus, and Tuesday, April 21 at 6:30pm at The Space at Greenstar.  Both screenings are free and open to the public, funded in part by the GPSAFC, and cosponsored by the New World Ag & Environment Group (NWAEG); Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Grads (FANG) at Cornell; and Gardens4Humanity Project at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County.  

"Plant This Movie" explores the evolution and growing impact of urban farming around the world, from the success story of Havana, Cuba to communities of urban farmers in diverse cities such as Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, London, and Lima.  In the U.S., the story focuses on innovative projects in New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon-- including the largest rooftop garden in the world, blighted areas transformed into urban farms, student-run gardens and CSA, and other projects that show the explosion of creative local efforts. 

The film first traces the evolution of the household yard in America from a necessary source for food to the ubiquitous lawn, now the # 1 irrigated urban crop. After the highly productive Victory Gardens of WWII, the country moved rapidly to a more centralized food system, and people became divorced from the source of their food. "Plant This Movie"  illustrates that the ingredients are all around us for scaling up urban farming and reconnecting people to production of the foods they eat. The film expresses the hope that people across the nation and the world once again will have access to healthier, locally grown food, using the land near where they live as a primary source.

‘Plant This Movie’ (2014) received its world premiere last August at the Portland Film Festival and since has been an official selection of the New Urbanism Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada, CA, and the FICMA Environmental Film Festival  in Barcelona, Spain among others.  The film was written and directed by Hatch and is narrated by the actress Daryl Hannah. 

A trailer and additional details are available online at: http://www.plantthismovie.com/.  Contact Sandy Repp at sjr37 AT cornell.edu, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292 with questions.

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