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Directed by Martina Brimmer Zora Tucker Produced by Martina Brimmer Zora Tucker Genre Runtime: 8 min Release Date: April 2008 Filmmaker's Website Send to Friends |
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Plot Outline
Farmers become activists in the fight for food justice in West Oakland, California.
Filmmaker Notes
More About Food Justice: A Growing Movement from Directors and Producers Martina Brimmer and Zora Tucker
Food Justice: A Growing Movement was conceptualized in a coffee shop in Prescott, AZ. The project was formally Martina’s senior project at Prescott College, but quickly became a mutual undertaking when Zora quit her job to head to California for the filming. Neither of them had studied or worked in film, much less attempted to document an issue which called for articulate exposure. The filmmakers felt that the issues of urban food security in relationship to systemic oppression, environmental racism, health issues and the failure of our conventional food system needed to reach the public, with primary distribution within the communities that bear the consequences of social inequity. It was also their intention as activists to portray the world which they are striving to create, and so Zora and Martina focused upon several of many Bay Area grassroots projects that they consider part of the food justice movement.
The project was filmed in West Oakland, San Francisco and South Central, Los Angeles. The artists used borrowed film and audio equipment and made the entire film for under $1000, most of which Martina raised. Prescott College graciously provided the editing equipment.
Both Zora and Martina have reached turning points in their lives as they continue their exploration of environmental and social sustainability: Zora started graduate school at CalPoly, Pomona in the Regenerative Studies program, and Martina returned to Bolivia to delve into Andean agriculature at the end of September 2006.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Martina Brimmer, Director and Producer
Martina Brimmer was raised in the Mission District in San Francisco by her mother and older sister. During her junior year at the San Francisco Waldorf High School, she discovered both rural organic agriculture and the urban-based social justice movement. Over the past six years both agricultural issues and radical social justice organizing have manifested in a deep connection to urban agriculture and equitable access to food. From West Philadelphia, to Bolivia, to Hopi, and Covelo California, Martina has been dedicated to formal and informal education within the complex realms of small scale, local food production. She is a recent graduate of Prescott College with a BA in Agroecology/Cultural and Regional Studies.
Zora Tucker, Director and Producer
Zora Tucker grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia in a politically active Quaker family and community. She went to college in Ohio and Florida, graduating with a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the New College of Florida. After a few years of working as a teacher, community organizer, video store clerk, and waiter, she went back to school at the Ecosa Institute for Sustainable Design, where she realized she wanted to focus her energy on popular education regarding social and environmental justice, and is returning this fall to graduate school at CalPoly in Pomona for a Master’s in Science in the Regenerative Studies program.