Screening:
- Wednesday, September 14 - 10:00am
Instituto Técnico Superior Comunitario (ITSC), Santo Domingo - Wednesday, September 14 - 6:00pm
FUNGLODE, Santo Domingo - Thursday, September 15 - 6:00pm
Centro Cultural Monina Cámpora, San Juan de la Maguana
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and exploring the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “Eater’s Manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy?
Director: Michael Schwarz
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Duration: 78min
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz (Producer and Director) founded Kikim Media with his wife Kiki Kapany in 1996. His work has been honored with the most prestigious awards in broadcasting — including three national Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award and the Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Coverage of the Disadvantaged. In addition to In Defense of Food, Schwarz is also currently directing The Valley, a three-hour cultural, intellectual, and technological history of Silicon Valley; and The Ornament of the World, a two-hour history of medieval Spain.
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Ecofilm Kids’ Short Films Program. A special collaboration between DREFF and the Ecofilm International Environmental Short Film Festival in Mexico.