This year's free, virtual Food Justice Film Festival runs Oct. 24-27 and features films that explore the ongoing fight for food- and farmworker rights, along with public health issues and the connections between food, environmental, and racial justice movements. Check out our lineup below.
The week before the festival — starting Oct. 17 — visit the website to watch recorded interviews with filmmakers, activists, and organizers — including legendary labor leader and American civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and food justice advocate, organizer, and community farmer Karen Washington, who coined the term “food apartheid.”
Protecting the planet for wildlife requires a just food system for everyone. Yet the U.S. food system is historically rooted in injustice. Food apartheid is evident in racially segregated, redlined neighborhoods that disproportionately lack access to healthy, fresh food in stores, schools, and workplaces, as well as unequal access to land ownership.
These communities are also hit hard by climate change, agricultural pollution, and public health crises — injustices propped up and worsened by a food system that harms wildlife, pollutes air and water, and pumps out destructive, unhealthy foods to vulnerable communities.
That’s why environmental justice and food justice go hand in hand. And it’s why the Center works to amplify the hard work of groups fighting for these causes. Our Food Justice Film Festival aims to showcase the work of filmmakers, activists, organizers, and food- and farm workers to bring light to the fight for justice.
Food Justice Film Festival
These award-winning films are available to watch anytime between Oct. 24 and 27:
