FOOD ON FILM: SPRING // WORKING TOGETHER

Dir. Jo Barker, Sylvie Planel

2019 | 69 mins | UK

The seeds of a better food system.

In Our Hands explores a quiet revolution that is transforming the way our food is produced and distributed. Our current industrial food system is a vast and wheezing giant that is only upheld by a stilted subsidy regime that pays out to landowners and leaves many farmers by the wayside.

But from the hedgerows and by-roads, the fields and furrows can now be heard the stirring of change! Stories from the global South have inspired farmers and food workers in our snug little island, with the idea of food sovereignty and a global movement to take back control of the food system.

From the grazier reviving the art of pasture, to the grower erecting a polytunnel in the heart of East London or the farmer saving a handful of ancient grain, a new agricultural landscape is emerging. Here rural traditions meet modern innovations in a new food system that will bring back life to the soil, a fair wage to the farmer and a flavour to the tomato!

Throughout the tumultuous summer of the Brexit referendum the Landworkers’ Alliance joined forces with two filmmakers, to unearth the farms and faces that are making this change happen.

We stand on the brink, the future is uncertain, but the seeds of a better food system are In Our Hands.

Click here to book this screening alongside a Preserving Workshop with JarSquad

The Panel

The film will be followed by a discussion about Landworkers’ Alliance, food sovereignty and British food production. The panel will be chaired by Rachel Russell a passionate life-long veg grower, food lover, cook, preserver, composter and student on the MA Food Studies at the University of Exeter. It will also include Holly Black – one of the producers of IN OUR HANDS, Ruth Hancock – Landworkers’ Alliance coordinating group member and agroecological farmer from East Devon, Michael Cooper – a grower and fermenter who splits his time between his time is split between Green Ginger Organics, School Farm CSA, and Crock & Cole, and Sasha Georgiades – grower and hedge layer and co-founder of Pondfield in Dartington.

FOOD ON FILM: IN FOUR SEASONS

Spring // working together

In the spring season, we will be looking at working together to make, grow, buy and campaign about food. We start with the family favourite RATATOUILLE (14th-16th April) which sees an enterprising rat who has a passion for cooking learn the value of collaboration as he goes on a journey to become a top Paris chef with the help of friends and family.

We then move to the UK to look into the role of community mutual aid groups in getting food to people during the pandemic with the documentary FROM BELOW (18th April).

We finish by exploring how English farmers are working together through the Landworkers’ Alliance and the international food sovereignty movement to foster agricultural practices based on working more closely with nature through the documentary IN OUR HANDS (25th April).

Both documentaries will be accompanied by panel discussions with food growers, community groups and researchers. There will also be the opportunity to get hands on with a pickling workshop from JarSquad (25th April) and a site visit to Exeter Growers Co-operative.

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VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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