This past August I had the pleasure of co-sponsoring, along with Applegate Farms, a screening here in Houston of the new documentary film, Lunch Line.
For those of you unfamiliar with the film, here’s a trailer and a review from The Atlantic Monthly. The film makers, Uji Films, give this synopsis:
Lunch Line reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program’s surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a weak patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program. The film tracks key moments in school food and child nutrition from 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present – revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people realize.
Today I got an update from Michael Graziano, one of the film’s two co-creators, with this exciting news:
We’ve been screening around the country with many more screenings on the way. Lunch Line was also recently selected as one of six films to participate in the Whole Foods “Do Something Reel” traveling film festival (the films will screen together at independent cinemas in more than 40 cities in Aprl/May). We also just learned that Lunch Line will be part of a special exhibit at The National Archives in Washington DC this Spring.
Most importantly, however, the film has a new site where people can set up their own screenings, and purchase copies of the film along with other stuff like screening kits and UNITE FOR LUNCH American Apparel T-shirts designed by the artist who did the illustrations in the film.
The website to which Michael refers is here. I’m so getting one of those t-shirts!
jenna Food w/ Kid Appeal says
They don’t have the t-shirts in kiddo sizes. I was thinking of ordering one as a raffle prize for our health fair.
Bettina Elias Siegel says
That would have been perfect!
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