BEA
Media Arts Festival
Sweet Malady is a documentary about Kolkata's love of sweets in the face of the rising tide of type II diabetes around the world.
Sweet Malady is a documentary about Kolkata's love of sweets in the face of the rising tide of type II diabetes around the world.
Sweet Malady is a documentary about Kolkata's love of sweets in the face of the rising tide of type II diabetes around the world.
Media for Change Food ignites discussion on the critical work of the world’s food heritage and its future. From production to taste, food an its impact on the environment, human nutrition, health, social custom, religion, identity and more are explored from field to plate. Media change makers connect the dots linking old foodways with new technology to celebrate what we grow and how we eat in the face of a changing world.
Media for Change Food ignites discussion on the critical work of the world’s food heritage and its future. From production to taste, food and its impact on the environment, human nutrition, health, social custom, religion, identity and more are explored from field to plate. Media change makers connect the dots linking old foodways with new technology to celebrate what we grow and how we eat in the face of a changing world.
Media for Change Food understands that soil, far from being inanimate dirt, writes the future for the world. The teeming life in that precious zone—including bacteria, fungi, algae, mites, nematodes, earthworms, ants, spiders, the roots of plants, and more—has the superpower to transform the inanimate to animate and affects every living being on the planet. Media for Change Food spotlights food as the action point for getting carbon out of the air and into the soil to create a sustainable future .
Media for Change Food highlights hope and success in how food is produced, stored, transported, and consumed as a system where each component affects the others. In the social sciences, Media for Change Food sees food as a storehouse of history that empowers social custom, identity, spiritual journey, economics, migration, and more.
Sarah Khan - Migrant Kitchens
Ei Shaharer Swad (Taste of the City)
Countertop Mealworm Farm
Navadanya Farm - India
The Past, Present and Future of Food
Vikram Vij
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Sarah Khan - Migrant Kitchens
Sarah Khan tells us about her project Queens Migrant Kitchens. Focused on stories of diversity and trying to get at it through foodways, Sarah discovers the amazing diversity of Queens, New York through the languages spoken, countries of origin as well as the underlayer of what came before. Read more at Culinary Backstreets https://culinarybackstreets.com/category/projects-category/queens-project-category/ -
Ei Shaharer Swad (Taste of the City)
MfC founder Sanjeev Chatterjee gives viewers a tour of Kolkata street food (Bengali with English subtitles). Kolkata offers one of the most diverse street food offerings in the world. While hygiene and health concerns of consuming anything sold on the sidewalks of a bustling city are real, Chatterjee says he sticks to well packaged or very hot (temperature) offering to stay clear of an upset tummy. This is a pilot for a proposed web series. -
Countertop Mealworm Farm
Austrian designer Katharina Unger shows off her kitchen countertop mealworm farm. It is a perpetual clean protein source for with an adventurous palate. The flavor is "somewhere between beef and mushrooms" says Katharina. -
Navadanya Farm - India
Scientist-Activist Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of seed diversity and makes an argument for organic farming. -
The Past, Present and Future of Food
Organic farmer Piero Senatore Musini tells the story of converting a farm he inherited to completely organic production and growing ancient grains. -
Vikram Vij
Canadian-Indian celebrity chef Vikram Vij talks about his idea of good food.
