Earth To Mouth (2002)

Filmed at the Wing Fong Farm in Ontario, this documentary follows the tilling, planting and harvesting of Asian vegetables destined for Chinese markets and restaurants. On 80 acres of land, Lau King-Fai, her son and a half-dozen migrant Mexican workers care for the plants. For Yeung Kwan, her son, the farm represents personal and financial independence. For his mother, it is an oasis of peace. For the Mexican workers, it provides jobs that help support their children back home. (42 Minutes)


Website - Watch - Rotten Tomatoes

Life and Debt (2001)

Life and Debt; Jamaica — land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Using conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her book A Small Place, Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up. (76 Minutes)

Website - Movie Trailer - Rotten Tomatoes

The Gleaners and I (2001)

The Gleaners and I ; Voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics, Agnès Varda's universally acclaimed 'wandering-road documentary' focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris.  (82 Minutes)


Website - Review - Rotten Tomatoes 

The Agriculture Rebel (2001)

Directed by Bertram Verhaag. Introducing Sepp Holzer, the permaculture farming genius, who grows top and soft fruit plus polycultures of vegetables on his forest farm at 1500m in the Austrian Alps. He demonstrates permaculture in terms of broadscale farming and horticulture, and shows how he integrates domesticated and wild animals, heritage grain crops plus aquaculture systems.This is permaculture and forest farming at its very best. (43 Minutes)


Website - Movie Trailer 

The Natural History of the Chicken (2000)

Broken into sections highlighting individuals' experiences with their feathered friends, the film is interspersed with striking footage of what goes on inside a poultry-harvesting factory. We are introduced to a variety of folks, from a woman in Maine who gave her ailing chicken CPR to one in Florida whose chicken lives in her home and wears panties. Through these anecdotal tales, we come to realize how attached people can become to these often-overlooked creatures. On the opposite side of things, we meet a group of citizens who are up in arms over the noise created by roosters raised for cockfighting in their otherwise-tranquil community.(56 Minutes)



Website - You Tube - Rotten Tomatoes

The Genetic Takover - Mutant Food (2000)

The Genetic Takeover - Mutant Food; Have North Americans become unwitting guinea pigs for multinationals that are blithely disregarding millions of years of evolution? In just a few short years, genetically modified plants have become part of the daily diet and are already found in 75% of processed foods. This revolution has occurred without consumer awareness and without the knowledge of the potential risks to human health and to the environment. Many scientists and farmers vigorously condemn the absence of adequate independent testing.


The Genetic Takeover takes a sober look at a potentially explosive situation. In response to consumer demands, many European and Asian countries have instituted mandatory labelling of genetically modified foods. North America, however, has not. In their relentless fight for profits, the industrial giants seem willing to ignore basic safety rules. Can food crops, a vital element of the collective wealth of this planet, remain at the mercy of private interests? (52 Minutes)


Website 

The Global Banquet - Politics of Food (1999)

The Global Banquet - Politics of Food; exposes globalization’s profoundly damaging effect on our food system in terms that are understandable to the non-specialist. It debunks several underlying myths about global hunger:

That hunger results from scarcity;
That small countries don’t know how to feed themselves; and
That only market-driven, chemically-based, industrial agriculture can feed the world.
This film reveals how agribusiness squeezes out small farmers and how trade liberalization undercuts subsistence farming—in the U.S. as well as in the developing world. It demonstrates how food security is linked to social development and how women, in particular, are affected by that. And it links factory farming and the alteration and patenting of life forms to degradation of the natural environment.

Through interviews with farmers, policy analysts, and international activists, The Global Banquet examines the ethical questions at the heart of the globalization debate. Beyond that, it shows how farmers, laborers, environmentalists, animal-rights activists, church groups, and students—worldwide—are mobilizing to address the situation. (56 Minutes)

Website