About | Film Showcases | Guest Speakers | Wellness Resources

 

About

Fresh Cinema pairs of food films with notable local figures from the world of science, technology, and medicine.

On May 13, 2017 visit the Digital Gym CINEMA in North Park for films, food, conversation, and wellness resources!

Following film screenings we’ll have hosted panels with local food and science experts. Food demonstrations by local celebrity chefs. Tabling opportunities for community health and local agriculture partners.

Film Showcases

11am | Forks Over Knives and talk with Melinda Sue Swanson, MPH, Garden Educator & School Wellness Coordinator at San Diego Unified School District

What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases. Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems? Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

1:15pm | King Corn and talk with Goran Bozinovic, Ph.D., Division of Biological Sciences Lecturer at University of California, San Diego, Lecturer, Division of Biological Sciences at University of California, San Diego

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

3:20pm | The Martian and talk with Jane K. Willenbring, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego & Dave Stegman, Associate Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

When astronauts blast off from the planet Mars, they leave behind Mark Watney (Matt Damon), presumed dead after a fierce storm. With only a meager amount of supplies, the stranded visitor must utilize his wits and spirit to find a way to survive on the hostile planet, including how to grow his own food.. Meanwhile, back on Earth, members of NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring him home, while his crew mates hatch their own plan for a daring rescue mission.

Guest Speakers

Melinda Sue Swanson, MPH, Garden Educator & School Wellness Coordinator, San Diego Unified School District
Goran Bozinovic, Ph.D., Lecturer, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Jane K. Willenbring, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dave Stegman, Associate Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Wellness Resources

Second Chance Youth Garden | Farm stand & CSA providing fresh locally grown produce with a mission to support youth employment.

 

For more information or to get involved, please contact Ethan van Thillo.
ethan@mediaartscenter.org | 619-230-1938

 

An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

 This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.