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[Karryn Olson-Ramanujan <karrynolson AT gmail.com>]

Occupy the Farm, a film by Todd Darling, tells the story of 200 urban farmers who walk onto a publicly owned research farm and plant it with two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real-estate development.

The film captures an intense conflict over one piece of land. Compelling characters on both sides of the battle create a remarkable narrative in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming.

From preparing the soil to police raids, from lawsuits to overflowing harvests, Occupy the Farm reveals a determined community responding with a direct action to address a major social need: healthy food and access to public land.

Join us on May 19th at Cinemapolis at 7:00 pm.
There will be speakers from our community and lots of smiling faces.

The film will be introduced by Rafael Aponte, Farmer and owner of Rocky Acres Community Farm and who represents Groundswell and their Youth Farm Project
For the after-screening Q&A Rafael will be joined by
Ann Piombino, the Youth Farm Manager and by Jhakeem Haltom from Ithaca's Congo Square Market

Watch the trailer:https://vimeo.com/117053430

The facebook link is: https://www.facebook.com/events/998974523453573/

Critics Say:

“Riveting from the start”, says the Village Voice’s film critic Ernest Handy about OCCUPY THE FARM. “It illustrates the staggering extent to which corporate interests dictate policy and shape scientific research.”

“Sweeps up the viewer in a fast-paced, character-driven narrative,” says Sarah Burke in her film review of OCCUPY THE FARM in East Bay Express.
“Empowering food for thought,” says Los Angeles Times film critic Michael Rechtsaffen.

The film raises big issues about the public mission of Land Grant Universities and how it has been - and continues to be undermined by big agriculture, big food, big pharm...

Please come, watch the film, and be part of the discussion of how we can work together - campus and community - to promote the PUBLIC MISSION of our own Land Grant university here in NY.

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