Just Eat It – Movie About Food Waste

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Just Eat It is a 75-minute
documentary film about food
waste and food rescue by Peg
Leg Films in partnership with
British Columbia's Knowledge
Network. The film will be
launching at festivals in April,
2014.
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Premiering at Hot
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April 27th!
We're excited to announce the
World Premiere of Just Eat It will
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be at the Hot Docs Film Festival
(http://www.hotdocs.ca/); in
Toronto on April 27th. Screenings
also set for April 28th and April
29th. Details and tickets at
www.hotdocs.ca.
(http://www.hotdocs.ca/)
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We
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R A I L E R food.
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devour countless cooking shows,
culinary magazines and foodie
blogs. So how could we possibly be
throwing nearly 50% of it in the
trash?
Filmmakers and food lovers Jen
Featuring interviews with TED
and Grant dive into the issue of
waste from farm, through retail,
lecturer Tristram Stewart and
acclaimed author Jonathan
all the way to the back of their
own fridge. After catching a
Bloom, Just Eat It looks at our
systemic obsession with expiry
glimpse of the billions of dollars
of good food that is tossed each
dates, perfect produce and
portion sizes, and reveals the core
year in North America, they
pledge to quit grocery shopping
of this seemingly insignificant
issue that is having devastating
cold turkey and survive only on
foods that would otherwise be
consequences around the globe.
Just Eat It brings farmers,
thrown away. In a nation where
one in 10 people is food insecure,
retailers, inspiring organizations,
and consumers to the table in a
the images they capture of
squandered groceries are both
cinematic story that is equal parts
education and delicious
shocking and strangely
compelling. But as Grant’s
entertainment.
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addictive personality turns full tilt
towards food rescue, the ‘thrill of
the find’ has unexpected
consequences.
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The filmmakers
Grant Baldwin
Jen Rustemeyer
Director/Editor
Producer
Grant’s background is in
composing music for film and
A spatial analyst by trade, Jenny
is also a writer, producer, and
television. He is formally schooled
in audio engineering and
zero-waster. She is the woman
behind the clean bin project blog,
produces his own music under the
name Phontaine. He has released
and she produced the 2010 film of
the same name which
three albums, created the score
for a number of productions, and
documented a year living zero
waste. She has spoken around the
secured placements in hit shows
and films such as Damages,
world on the topic of recycling
and waste reduction including a
Limitless, and Sacred Planet
Imax. After working closely with
tour across Canada by bicycle
with The Clean Bin Project film.
top filmmakers, moving from
music to being behind the camera
Jen spends her fair share of time
both in front of and behind the
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was a natural progression. He
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directed the feature documentary
The Clean Bin Project (2010)
which won 9 festival awards and
camera, and can be found
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making things from scratch. Just
Eat It is her second feature film.
toured internationally. Just Eat It
is his second feature film.
"IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A COMPLETE
REVOLUTION IN THE WAY WE
TREAT FOOD. IT'S JUST TWEAKING
IT SLIGHTLY AND USUALLY IN
DELICIOUS WAYS."
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