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FOOD AND COUNTRY

By Laura GABBERT

Environmental - Completed 2022

America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system.

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Sundance Film Festival 2023

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- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Environmental
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Laura GABBERT
- Synopsis
- Trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl worries about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestle with both immediate and systemic challenges. As the pandemic takes hold, she reaches across political and social divides to discover innovators who are risking it all to survive on the front lines. The film transcends the health crisis, laying bare how America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles purveyors who are striving to stay independent. What began as a journalistic endeavor blooms into a series of intimate friendships. As Reichl witnesses and follows intrepid characters puzzle through intractable circumstances, she takes stock of the path she’s traveled and the ideals she left behind. Through her eyes, we learn to understand the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
  
  Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) teams with Reichl to tell an expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry. The film covers a rich cultural spectrum, from fine dining rooms to farmlands, discovering passionate, inspirational changemakers along the way.

FOOD AND COUNTRY

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