The Food Justice Film Festival, Sept 24-27, features four award-winning films that connect issues of environmental justice with our food system, racial justice and access to healthy, sustainable food. Watch independently or set up watch-parties with your staff, friends, family to stay connected during these trying times. Films are free for all audiences. Each film will be available for 24-hours on its scheduled day during the #FoodJusticeFilmFestival.

• Sept. 24: “Gather” – a brand new release about indigenous food sovereignty, traditional food systems that protect biodiversity of nature.
• Sept. 25: “Invisible Vegan” – a film about African American access to healthy, sustainable food, cultural heritage, and plant-based diets.
• Sept. 26: “Dolores” – featuring Dolores Huerta, an influential labor leader and her work to protect farmworkers.
• Sept. 27: “Urban Roots” – highlighting the urban farming movement to address lack of access to sustainable, healthy foods.

Each film at the #FoodJusticeFilmFestival has an accompanying panel of interviews with filmmakers and activists including:

• Dolores Huerta – renowned labor activist
• Sanjay Rawal – dir. (“Gather”) and Jasmine Leyva – dir. (“Invisible Vegan”)
• Jo’Vonna Johnson Cooke – Maitu Foods, Eugene Cooke – Grow Where You Are
• Jacqui Patterson – climate activist from the NAACP
• Twila Cassadore – San Carlos Apache activist
• Samuel Genshaw – Yurok tribe and director of the Ancestral Guard
• lauren Ornelas – director of the Food Empowerment Project
• Kat Lopez – Veggie Mijas (activistas de la tierra)
• Alfonzo Chavez – Food justice advocate, Flowers and Bullets
• Neza Xiuhtecutli – Farmworkers Association, Florida