At Sundance Film Festival this year, there is a new documentary about hunger in America, Finding North. The film, directed by Kristie Jacobson and Lori Silverbush with executive producers Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Tom Colicchio, Christina Weiss Lurie, and Jeffrey Lurie, premiered January 22, 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The film examines the impact of food insecurity that affects more than 49 million Americans everyday through three profiles: Rosie, a fifth-grader from Colorado who struggles with hunger, Tremonica, a second-grader from Mississippi who has health issues exacerbated by a poor and insufficient diet, and Barbie Izquierdo of Witnesses to Hunger, a single mother of two who is striving to ensure her children have a better life that is free of hunger. The film also features the Witnesses to Hunger project and Dr. Mariana Chilton, Director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, who provides insight on the issue of hunger in America and strategies to end it through advocacy and policy change.
To read more about the film, please see Julie Makinen’s article in the Los Angeles Times movie blog:
Sundance 2012: ‘Finding North’ looks at hunger in America
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