Second Annual Flagstaff Food Film Festival this weekend

Slow Food NAU Presents
The Second Annual Flagstaff Food Film Festival
February 18, 4pm-9pm, February 19, 12pm-9pm
Cline Auditorium, Northern Arizona University

The Flagstaff Food Film Festival seeks to advance the understanding of the environmental and social problems surrounding our current food system. The festival will present thought-provoking films such as Ingredients, Food Stamped, and The Vanishing of the Bees, and will provide the opportunity to network with student and community food groups. Local chefs will provide samples from their local and regional menus and there will be chances to win local veggies (from Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture) and other prizes.

The film festival will also welcome keynote speaker Mark Winne, author, food justice advocate, and co-founder of the Community Food Security Coalition. Winne’s two books Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty and Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture will be available for purchase. There will be a book signing on Friday from 4-4:30pm and from 8:30-9pm. For more about Mark Winne, visit www.markwinne.com.

All food and films are FREE to the public.

This event is being made possible through the generous funding from STAC (The Student Activities Council), the NAU Green Fund (a student-led, student-created, and student-funded organization) and a community non-profit, Flagstaff Foodlink and the Masters of Arts in Sustainable Communities Program.

For more information on this event, please visit www.nau.edu/green or the Slow Food NAU Facebook Page.

For further questions, contact Slow Food NAU president, Tamara Sullivan at tjs253@nau.edu or festival co-organizer, Regan Emmons at rge8@nau.edu

2011 Flagstaff Food Film Festival Schedule*

*Subject to slight changes

February 18, 2011

4:00pm to 4:30pm: Tabling/Local food sampling/ Book Signing by Mark Winne
4:35pm to 4:45pm: Introduction
4:45pm to 5:00pm: Kneel Down Bread
5:00pm to 6:00pm: Food Stamped
6:10pm to 7:25pm: Ingredients
7:30pm to 8:30pm: Mark Winne
8:30pm to 9:00pm: Book signing/Local food sampling

February 19, 2011

12:00pm to 12:30pm: Tabling/Local food sampling
12:30pm to 2:00pm: The Vanishing of the Bees
2:10pm to 3:30pm: Bag It
3:40pm to 5:10pm: Dirt!
5:10pm to 6:45pm: short films, The True Cost of Food and Fridays at the Farm /local food sampling
6:45pm to 7:30pm: Dive
7:40pm to 9:00pm: Fresh