The Future of Food

Director: Deborah Koons Garcia
Producer: Deborah Koons Garcia and Catherine Lynn Butler
Length: 88 minutes, Production date: 2004
Website: thefutureoffood.com

With unprecedented clarity, Deborah Koon Garcia’s documentary, The Future of Food distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the changes happening in the food system today – genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food -- into terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers consumers to realize the consequences of their food choices on our future.

About the Filmmaker:

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia has called California home for over thirty years. Her film production company, Lily Films, is located in Mill Valley, California just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Her most recent film, The Future of Food, examines alarming issues surrounding the rapidly increasing corporate domination of our food supply. It is the first major film to cover the history and technology of genetic engineering and the complex implications of untested genetically engineered crops on the environment and unlabelled foods on consumers. Garcia's other film credits include All About Babies, Poco Loco and Grateful Dawg, a ocumentary featuring her late husband, Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead.

Reviews:

"The film covers all the key agricultural, social and political issues surrounding the industrialization of agriculture and genetic engineering." - Craig Sams, Chairman, Soil Association, Great Britain

“There's a stunning revelation in almost every scene. Grade: A” - David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor

“…sober, far-reaching polemic against genetically modified foods… Quietly inflammatory. Unsettling.” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times