Movies
Please view the complete 2012 movie schedule and descriptions at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute’s website.
March 28 – BAG IT
“Gripping, funny, intelligent, and sure to change your life.” – Louie Psihoyos, director of the The Cove
“Bag It moves from charming to alarming to downright terrifying as it reveals that the American Chemistry Council is a powerful lobby with deep pockets dedicated to promoting the use of plastics and other chemicals without regard to the welfare of the nation as a whole and in a manner that blatantly threatens the health of future generations.” – FilmSlate Magazine
Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes. But where do these bags go when we’re done with them? BAG IT follows the journey of average guy Jeb Berrier when he resolves to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store -and ends up learning about much more than plastic bags. Discover the unknown consequences of rampant plastic use–from degradation to the risk of cancer and other human diseases. BAG IT makes it clear that it is time to question how we produce and consume “disposable” objects.
SHOW TIME: 7 PM Running Time: 78 minutes (2010).
April 25 – FARMAGEDDON
“An eye-popping wake-up call revealing how the USDA and the FDA have increasingly waged war on America’s small farmers even when they can prove they are contributing healthful products to our food supply.” – The Los Angeles Times
“I can’t recommend it heartily enough. Who owns your body? What kind of terror do America’s food police inflict on heritage food providers? This is strong language, but we live in disturbing times. You owe it to your children to empower yourself with the truth about food safety and food choice.” – Joel Salatin
Americans’ right to choose fresh, healthy food is under attack. FARMAGEDDON tells the story of how small family farms are being harmed by regulations created for industrial-scale agriculture and threatened using extreme enforcement measures. FARMAGEDDON highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging consumers and farmers alike to defend their rights to eat and grow fresh, unprocessed foods.
SHOW TIME: 7 PM Running Time: 90 minutes (2011).
May 30 – END OF THE LINE
Official Selection, 2009 Sundance Film Festival
“Vital, well-researched, [and] evenhanded… offering a persuasive case that the major species of edible fish are headed for extinction.”
- The New York Times
“…furious and compelling… It’s a film, in the spirit of David Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Fran Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid (2009), that chronicles the marine Armageddon perpetrated in the name of consumer choice by big businesses over the last half century…. exposes the ongoing rape of the world’s seas and oceans by a multi-billion dollar industry that pursues shareholder profit over ecological concerns.” – The Telegraph, London
Imagine a world without fish. THE END OF THE LINE reveals the inconvenient truths about overfishing the world’s oceans. This is the first documentary to illuminate the true extent of the crisis facing our aquatic ecosystems. Taking us from the cod-depleted shores of the north Atlantic to the fish markets of Tokyo, THE END OF THE LINE sounds a powerful wakeup call: if we continue fishing as we are, we will see the end of many fish species before 2050.
SHOW TIME: 7 PM Running Time: 82 minutes (2009).
Where: Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion
Time: Movies begin at 7:00pm
Admission: $12.00 for the general public, $10.00 for Institute Members, and seniors & students over 18 with IDs. FREE for those under 18 and Market vendors. Become an Institute Member the night of, and receive an immediate discount.
Thank you to our SPONSORS for their support of these great events!
Downtown Subscription, Green Party Santa Fe, La Montanita Co-op, Robert Marcus and Ann Coulston, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Bernie and Carol Toobin, Walter Burke Catering, Anonymous, Cafe Pasqual’s, Denman and Associates, Lakind Dental Group, Slow Food Santa Fe, State Employees Federal Credit Union, Todos Santos Chocolates, Seth Friedman, DC, Sue Perley, and Catherine Allport, KUNM.