Occupy the Farm
50 City Theatrical Release!
“It's more than a great documentary film. It’s another way of viewing your neighborhood and the world.”
- The Huffington Post
“Riveting from the start... It illustrates the staggering extent to which corporate interests dictate policy and shape scientific research."
- The Village Voice
"Empowering food for thought."
- Los Angeles Times
“Sweeps up the viewer in a fast-paced, character-driven narrative..."
- East Bay Express
“It's more than a great documentary film. It’s another way of viewing your neighborhood and the world.”
- The Huffington Post
“Riveting from the start... It illustrates the staggering extent to which corporate interests dictate policy and shape scientific research."
- The Village Voice
"Empowering food for thought."
- Los Angeles Times
“Sweeps up the viewer in a fast-paced, character-driven narrative..."
- East Bay Express
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Director: Todd Darling
Runtime: 88 min. UPC: 685349905812 PPR: $250 Genres: Documentary, Agriculture, Human Rights
Synopsis: Occupy the Farm tells the story of 200 urban farmers who walk onto a publicly-owned research farm and plant two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real-estate development. This direct action set up a vibrant tent village on land destined to become condos, while their crops blocked the development plans of a cash-starved public institution, the University of California, Berkeley. Their confrontational, yet hopeful tactic raises important questions: What are the most effective ways to bring healthy food to hungry, urban neighborhoods? And, who should control research and education at the world’s most important public university: private interests or the public good? |
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