Description:
96 minutes
DVD-R version,
Color / Stereo
Closed Captioned
Grade Level: 10-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2007
Copyright Date: 2005
ISBN (DVD): 1-59458-652-7
Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer
Produced by Helmut Grasser, Allegrofilm
Photography - Erwin Wagenhofer
Sound - Helmut Junker
Supported by Österreichisches Filminstitut Filmfonds Wien ;
Close to a billion of the nearly seven billion people on Earth are starving today. But the food we are currently producing could feed 12 billion people. This is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, the flow of goods and cash flow -- a film about scarcity amid plent
96 minutes
DVD-R version,
Color / Stereo
Closed Captioned
Grade Level: 10-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2007
Copyright Date: 2005
ISBN (DVD): 1-59458-652-7
Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer
Produced by Helmut Grasser, Allegrofilm
Photography - Erwin Wagenhofer
Sound - Helmut Junker
Supported by Österreichisches Filminstitut Filmfonds Wien ;
Close to a billion of the nearly seven billion people on Earth are starving today. But the food we are currently producing could feed 12 billion people. This is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, the flow of goods and cash flow -- a film about scarcity amid plenty.
Why doesn't a tomato taste like a tomato today? How does one explain that 200 million people in India, supplier of 80% of Switzerland's wheat, suffer from malnutrition? Why are thousands of acres of the Amazon being cleared to grow soybeans? Is water something to which the public has a basic right or, as the CEO of the world's largest food company Nestlé suggests, a foodstuff with a market value?
These distressing questions are addressed as filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer travels from Austria to Brazil, France to Romania to interview Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, CEOs and directors of the world's largest food companies, agronomists, biologists, fishermen, farmers and farmworkers.
On a daily basis, in Vienna alone, enough left-over bread to supply a small city is destroyed. The planet has enough production power to feed everyone, but 800 million people suffer from hunger. What does world hunger have to do with us?
Awards:
Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
The Guelph International Film Festival
The Portland International Film Festival
Belgrade International Film Festival
One World Film Festival (Prague)
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