One Earth Film Festival

About the Event

Cafeteria Man

Richard Chisolm/2011/65 Min/Food Justice, Youth, Educational

Youth (10+), Teens, and young adults are encouraged to attend.

"Highly recommended for a wide range of classes in addition to family & consumer science programs. The film could be used to generate discussion about many topics, such as urban schools, healthy eating, childhood obesity, local food movement, economic issues, community involvement, and youth activism."

— Educational Media Reviews Online

"Richard Chisolm's elating movie about good-food guru Tony Geraci…celebrates Geraci for his profound grasp of what healthful eating means to public school students.”
— Baltimore Sun

"Cafeteria Man provides powerful ammunition in the fight to end the epidemic of childhood obesity."
— Jay A. Perman, MD, President, University of Maryland Baltimore

Film Description: Cafeteria Man takes a behind the scenes look at Tony Geraci’s sweeping, tenacious efforts to kick start school lunch reform in Baltimore’s schools, a large urban district that serves 83,000 students, and later in Memphis schools, with 200,000 kids. As the newly hired Food and Nutrition Director of the Baltimore’s public school district, Geraci hatches an ambitious, multi-faceted plan to feed students healthy, locally-sourced meals, teach them nutritional awareness, and offer them training and vocational opportunities in the world of food. His bold vision includes a 33-acre teaching farm, school vegetable gardens, student-designed meals, and meatless Monday’s. Cafeteria Man follows Geraci as he partners with a dedicated group of parents and students to overhaul a long-established, dysfunctional lunch program and battle the entrenched bureaucracy behind it. The film profiles Baltimore’s experience as it becomes recognized as part a burgeoning national movement, and includes appearances by food author Michael Pollan, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass.

We will also be screening one of the One Earth Young Filmmakers winning films If I Could by Saron Bahre. However, for the Academy for Global Citizenship screening, we will instead be screening a different One Earth Young Filmmakers winning film Monarchs in Motion by Mason Mirabile.

Stay after the film for an enlightening facilitated dialogue with relevant experts and advocates.

Build Chicago Tickets

Time: 10:30am -1:00pm

Location: BUILD Chicago, 5100 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644

Academy for Global Citizenship Tickets

Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm

Location: Academy for Global Citizenship, 4942 W 44th St, Chicago, IL 60638

Food Inc. 2

Melissa Robledo, Robert Kenner/2023/94 Min/Food Justice, Agriculture , Sustainability

Teens and young adults are encouraged to attend.

Content Advisory: Dead/dismembered Animals

"This is an engaging and watchable activist documentary that does make way for optimism in its last minutes, but doesn’t, um, sugarcoat its envoi about changing our eating ways: “Not only can we do it, we have to." - Roger Ebert

"You might devour less after watching “Food, Inc. 2,” and what you eat will probably be healthier.”- Ben Kenigsberg

Film Description: Food, Inc. 2 is a 2023 documentary that examines the food industry's corporate consolidation and its impact on consumers and the environment. The film is a sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. This movie, directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, picks up where the first one left off in exposing the at-times mind-bogglingly unwholesome practices of America’s corporate food concerns in manipulating us to consume that which is bad for us. But it begins by sharing the ostensibly good news, which is that increased food consciousness is making healthy and still delicious options more available to us.

We will also be screening one of the One Earth Young Filmmakers winning films Monarchs in Motion by Mason Mirabile.

Stay after the film for an enlightening facilitated dialogue with relevant experts and advocates.

Andersonville Chamber of Commerce Tickets

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, 1554 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660

When We cycle

Arne Gielen, Gertjan Hulster/2024/62 Min/Sustainability, Transportation

Teens and young adults are encouraged to attend.

Film Description: From the makers of the international proclaimed films Why We Cycle and Together We Cycle. When We Cycle is a feature-length documentary considering different developments in society and the role of cycling in these possible futures. It takes a look into the great unknown, asking whether the fast and efficient cyclist gets priority or are other scenarios conceivable? In the documentary, various experts and everyday cyclists take you on this journey through different imaginable futures for cycling.

We will also be screening one of the One Earth Young Filmmakers winning films The Most Wonderful Choice of the Year by Magnolia Elementary School.

Stay after the film for an enlightening facilitated dialogue with relevant experts and advocates.

ADA-compliant accessible venue. The Kehrein Center for the Arts is the product of a years-long effort to restore an architecturally-significant but unused auditorium into a vibrant fine and performing arts center, complete with a 900-seat storytelling theater, art gallery, and community gathering place. Original construction was in 1954 by Belli & Belli.

Kehrein Center for the Arts Tickets

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644

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