Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
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The Need to Grow
Logline: With an estimated 60 years of soil left on Earth, “The Need To Grow” follows innovators of low and high tech solutions to help localize food and regenerate our planet’s dying soils.
Elevator Pitch:
Almost everyone has heard about climate change. What most don’t realize is reducing carbon emissions is only half of the answer. Carbon already in our atmosphere will not be rebalanced unless it is drawn back down with the help of healthy soils. Soils also reduce drought, flood, increase nutrition, and clean our air and water.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Need to Grow
Logline: With an estimated 60 years of soil left on Earth, “The Need To Grow” follows innovators of low and high tech solutions to help localize food and regenerate our planet’s dying soils.
Elevator Pitch:
Almost everyone has heard about climate change. What most don’t realize is reducing carbon emissions is only half of the answer. Carbon already in our atmosphere will not be rebalanced unless it is drawn back down with the help of healthy soils. Soils also reduce drought, flood, increase nutrition, and clean our air and water.
- 11/8/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Five-day festival in Nova Scotia connects food and films.
Devour! The Food Film Fest, held in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, has given its Golden Tine Awards to Chen Yu-Hsun’s Zone Pro Site: A Moveable Feast [pictured] as best feature drama and Jeremy Seifert’s Gmo Omg as best feature documentary.
Zone Pro Site is about a young woman’s path to her destiny in the kitchen. Gmo Omg is about a father trying to educate himself on what he is feeding his children.
In the shorts categories, the Golden Tines are Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of Cook It Raw Charleston (documentary), and Scooter Corkle’s Pour Retourner (drama).
“This year we had an exceptionally robust program with films from around the world,” said Michael Howell, executive director of Devour!.
“We are delighted we were able to attract such a high calibre of culinary films. Each of the award winners should be very proud of their achievements.”
The...
Devour! The Food Film Fest, held in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, has given its Golden Tine Awards to Chen Yu-Hsun’s Zone Pro Site: A Moveable Feast [pictured] as best feature drama and Jeremy Seifert’s Gmo Omg as best feature documentary.
Zone Pro Site is about a young woman’s path to her destiny in the kitchen. Gmo Omg is about a father trying to educate himself on what he is feeding his children.
In the shorts categories, the Golden Tines are Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of Cook It Raw Charleston (documentary), and Scooter Corkle’s Pour Retourner (drama).
“This year we had an exceptionally robust program with films from around the world,” said Michael Howell, executive director of Devour!.
“We are delighted we were able to attract such a high calibre of culinary films. Each of the award winners should be very proud of their achievements.”
The...
- 11/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you don't know the first thing about GMOs heading into Jeremy Seifert's new documentary "Gmo Omg" (like, say, what those letters even stand for), don't worry. Seifert didn't know much initially either, which is how he says the movie first evolved -- as a way for the filmmaker and concerned father of three to find out more about genetically modified organisms (a.k.a. GMOs) and how much of our food supply is filled with them.
So, with his wife and kids in tow, Seifert set out to find answers to his questions about how GMOs affect farms, families, and society at large. Traveling from Haiti to Norway and points in between, it's all in service of creating a dialogue about how and what we eat. And like any activist documentary, maybe even changing it too. Here's a few more things to know before heading into Seifert's self-styled Gmo primer.
So, with his wife and kids in tow, Seifert set out to find answers to his questions about how GMOs affect farms, families, and society at large. Traveling from Haiti to Norway and points in between, it's all in service of creating a dialogue about how and what we eat. And like any activist documentary, maybe even changing it too. Here's a few more things to know before heading into Seifert's self-styled Gmo primer.
- 7/23/2014
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
Title: Gmo Omg Director: Jeremy Seifert A lot of nonfiction films of the social activist strain peddle scattershot panic or unfocused, call-to-arms rhetoric in lieu of taking the time to properly root down into a particular issue, present compelling characters or craft throughlines of a deeper and more sincere engagement. However well intentioned they might be, they fan the flames of discord, attacking those promulgating different opinions as backwards, uninformed or worse. “Gmo Omg,” which explores the loss of seed diversity and the rise in the genetic manipulation of food, is thankfully not one of those films. Directed by Jeremy Seifert, this bighearted, family-centric effort has no small amount of [ Read More ]
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- 9/24/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s new documentary “Gmo Omg,” which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, is a layman’s look at the world of industrial agriculture — GMOs being “genetically modified organisms.” Or, as we think of them, foods. By design, the industry is irreproachable and impenetrable, run by corporate behemoths. And to question their scientific methods or authority is to be ill-informed, unsophisticated — or stupid. But Seifert (pictured below) is unperturbed. He moves beyond the industry’s Fda approval of genetically modified foods to tap the wall of corporate concealment. Like Peter Joseph’s “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward,” Robert Kenner’s “Food,...
- 9/20/2013
- by Laurene Williams
- The Wrap
As the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped things up north of the border, a handful of specialty films had respectable debuts at the box office. Andrew Dosunmu's "Mother of George" was chief among them, finding the best per-theater-average of any film in release. The Oscilloscope-distributed film, which follows a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, grossed $22,456 from an exclusive engagement at New York's Angelika Film Center. That's a promising start for the film, which was picked up after a warmly received premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Another Sundance alum, Alexandre Moors' "Blue Caprice," had a decent opening via Sundance Selects. The film -- starring Isaiah Washington in a much heralded performance -- grossed $15,200 from a single screen. The film will expand to the top 15 markets throughout September. Also strong was the one screen debut of Jeremy Seifert’s Berlinale-premiering documentary "Gmo Omg" -- which looks into how laboratory.
- 9/15/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
There are moments in “Gmo Omg” that feel a little bit like “Jaws” and “Psycho.” What those films did for the beach and the shower, this documentary from Jeremy Seifert could do for the grocery store for those who are easily persuaded. We left the movie stressing out over what we could eat for dinner that wouldn’t leave us riddled with tumors in 10 years. The film posits that even Whole Foods isn’t safe from the plague of the titular evil, with the documentary calling out the supermarket giant for stocking processed foods with GMOs.As “Gmo Omg” explains, GMOs are genetically modified organisms: plants and animals that have been genetically engineered for certain qualities, such as being resistant to pesticides. Director Seifert gets drawn into the world of GMOs by his young son’s interest in seeds, starting his investigation into what they are and how they might...
- 9/13/2013
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
Director Jeremy Seifert's agriculture documentary "Gmo Omg" follows Seifert (director of the 2010 short "Dive!"), who in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake decided to explore why the people of Haiti burned 475 tons of seeds donated by the agricultural corporation Monsanto. The film's focus then shifts to an investigation of the use of Genetically Modified Organisms within the food industry and how these uses affect our daily lives. Below the filmmaker shares an intimate scene from his film. Submarine Deluxe released the film in New York September 13, Los Angeles September 20, and Seattle September 27. The Scene: This scene comes over halfway through the film. We've already trekked across the country talking to farmers and been to Washington DC to figure out what's really going on with the false promises of industrial agribusiness' GMOs. After allowing my children to go trick-or-treating with their friends--struggling with the unknown health risks but also wanting.
- 9/12/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
As battles over the world's food supply intensify, some tough questions become ever more pressing: Who controls it? Are shortages being created and manipulated, and to what end? Exactly what is in what we are eating? Writer-director Jeremy Seifert addresses those concerns and more in Gmo Omg, a documentary that is by turns exasperating, illuminating, and intentionally infuriating. Sparked by his precocious six-year-old son's obsession with seeds, Seifert dives into research on the state of the world's seed supply, which springboards into larger questions about global food sources and who wields power over them. That line of query of course leads straight to the machinations of Monsanto. Seifert (whose approach owes more than a little to Michael Moore) travels the world, talking ...
- 9/11/2013
- Village Voice
Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Omg! Actually, it’s – Gmo Omg, Jeremy Seifert‘s latest documentary film about food premiered at Berlinale 2013. Definitely something worth your full attention so make sure you check out the first trailer for the movie in the rest of this report! So, here’s one simple question: who controls the future of our food? Let’s hope that Seifert’s documentary will give an answer. Or, at least – start a discussions. Anyway, it explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s...
- 2/18/2013
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Check out the trailer for documentary "Gmo Omg," the opening night film for the Berlinale's Culinary Cinema section. The film follows first-time feature director Jeremy Seifert as he investigates genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in seeds and the subsequent effects on health, biodiversity and the global agriculture industry. "Gmo Omg" had its premiere on February 10. Who controls the future of your food? Gmo Omg explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. Gmo Omg follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In Gmo Omg, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and...
- 2/11/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Director Jeremy Seifert's upcoming agriculture documentary, "Gmo Omg," has been in production since reaching its funding goal in the summer of 2011 via a Kickstarter campaign. Now, after almost two years the film is nearing its release, and Indiewire has the exclusive first trailer. The film follows Seifert (director of the 2010 short "Dive!"), who in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake decided to explore why the people of Haiti burned 475 tons of seeds donated by the agricultural corporation Monsanto. The film's focus then shifts to an investigation of the use of Genetically Modified Organisms within the food industry and how these uses affect our daily lives. "Gmo Omg" will premiere February 10 in the Culinary Section at the Berlin International Film Festival, with a U.S. release planned for later this year. Watch the full trailer below:...
- 2/8/2013
- by Cameron Sinz
- Indiewire
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