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Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives
Winner! Best of Festival Award -
Documentary Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Finalist for Environmental Media Award - Documentary - FeatuRE
Synopsis
About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ing redients and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED UP! presents an entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it.
FED UP! answers many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides through interviews with Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey from the Center for Ethics and Toxics, Peter Rosset and Anuradha Mittal from Food First, Vandana Shiva from the Research Center for Science, Technology and Ecology, Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Martina McGloughlin, Director of UC Davis' Biotechnology Program and many others. It also introduces us to local Bay Area organic farmers from Purisima Greens Farm and the Live Power Community Farm, presenting community supported agriculture(CSA) and small- scale organic farming as real alternatives to agribusiness and industrial food.
Documentary Video, TRT: 57:40
"an eye-opening, provocative video..." —Eating Well Magazine
"FED UP! shows why- and how- small producers and everyday consumers
should take back control of their food" —SF Bay Guardian
"We were really knocked out by it... This film is the reason why
I put my films online."
—Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives and Archive.org
Wholesome Goodness Productions is grateful for the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org, an important tool for media makers, researchers and the general public. It is thanks to the over 1,000 archival films made available from the Prelinger Archives online in MPEG2 format that we were able to deliver our message in such an entertaining and meaningful manner.
Partial List of Screenings
Screenings still happen, we just stopped listing them.
- June 9th Food and Farm Film Series, Portland OR
- March 31st Green Screen Movie Night , Portland, OR
2004
- March
16th Firehouse
Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington VT
- February 26th UC
Davis, Davis,
CA
- February
25th Siskiyou
Environmental Film Festival, Ashland,
OR
- February 28th Crissy
Field Center, San Francisco, CA
- January 30th BookBeat Bookstore and
Café, Fairfax,
CA
2003
- December 11th La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
- October 25th United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford, CA
- August 6 Red Vic Movie House, San Francisco, CA
- July 12th 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
- June 11th First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
- June 5 Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA
- May 27th New College Theater, San Francisco, CA
- April 23 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA
- April 11th, Dance Palace, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
- March 29, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival Leavenworth, Washington
- World Community Film Festival Courtenay, BC, Canada, Traveling Festival
- January 11th, WIld and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City, CA
- January
22 The Ecological Farming Conference, Pacific
Grove, CA
2002
- December 13 at Earth Gallery Microcinema Garberville, CA
- November 16 Film Arts Festival's "Director's Choice" Marathon
- October 18 Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
- Sept 14th, Green Reel Film Festival Hollywood, CAFed Up! Has screened on Free Speech TV and Lime TV
- Look for Fed Up! at the interactive tv.oneworld.net
Production Stills
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Director, Angelo Sacerdote
DNA kids
Vandana Shiva
"A Giant of Unlimited Power at Man's Command!"
"A man isn't safe, even at
his own dinner table!"