Global Food For Thought: “Food Inc.” & “The Pepper Fields”

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Phnom Penh: Double Bill with new documentaries from Cambodia and the USA: The trailer of the upcoming M.E.T.A. documentary THE PEPPER FIELDS (6min, 2010) about Kampot pepper farmers (produced in cooperation with the German Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation) is followed by “FOOD, INC.” (93min, 2009). This civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry does for the supermarket what "Jaws" did for the beach. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the US food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the government's regulatory agencies. Meta House