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shareWhat sustains our communities? Constellating food politics and land use as vital factors of social life, these films trace the woven relations between human and more-than-human ecologies with spotlights on the ways land and food mediate our coexistence.
Guests in Attendance: Director Andrew Nadkarni (Between Earth & Sky), Director Gelareh Kiazand (Preserving Taste), Subject Hanif Sadr (Preserving Taste), Director Ái Vuong (Boca Chica), Director/Writer Jackie! Zhou (Order for Pickup), Director Harleen Kaur Bal (Unpacking Immigration)
Community Partners: NAAAP-San Jose
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In this program
Between Earth & Sky
Directed by: Andrew Nadkarni | 25 mins
Studying “what grows back” after disturbance in the rainforest canopy, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni must turn her research question onto herself after a life-threatening fall from a tree.
Preserving Taste
Directed by: Gelareh Kiazand | 21 mins
Chef Hanif Sadr introduces Northern Iranian cuisine to San Francisco, navigating personal and political challenges of ingredient sourcing and immigration restrictions.
Boca Chica
Directed by: Ai Vuong & Samuel Diaz Fernandez | 13 mins
Indigenous ecologies and ways of being are threatened by SpaceX on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Order for Pickup
Directed by: Jackie! Zhou | 13 mins
A woman must find a way back to herself as her reality blurs into a cycle of work and digitally-mediated isolation.
Unpacking Immigration
Directed by: Harleen Kaur Bal | 12 mins
A Punjabi Sikh meatpacking community in California’s Central Valley reflects on migration, labor, and belonging.
Wild Hogs and Saffron
Directed by: Andy Sarjahani | 19 mins
Set in the Arkansas Ozarks, a wild hog hunt sets the stage for a meditation on cross-cultural friendship and solidarity in unexpected places.
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