New Film on hunger in America: Finding North

Posted by on January 29, 2012

Documentary Film Finding North premieres at Sundance Film Festival 2012
Film features Barbie I, Witnesses to Hunger, and Dr. Chilton

The Center for Hunger-Free Communities is excited to announce the premiere of the new documentary film 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.

http://www.participantmedia.com/films/coming_soon/finding_north.php

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.

http://www.centerforhungerfreecommunities.org/our-projects/witnesses-hunger

Barbie and Dr. Chilton traveled to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, at the invitation of the film’s distributors, Participant Media, and participated in a panel following the film’s debut about how we can end hunger in the U.S. Follow their experience on twitter at @HungerFreeCtr or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HungerFreeCtr.

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
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/sundance-2012-finding-north-looks-at-hunger-in-america.html

To view a trailer of the film, please click here.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-exclusive-trailer-for-sundance-hunger-documentary-finding-north