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An online documentary project offering shareable films, community engagement, and creative resources to inspire change in the way kids eat. In 1999, The Berkeley School District created its groundbreaking food policy with the goal to “provide nutritious, fresh, tasty, locally grown food that reflects Berkeley’s cultural diversity.” Ten years later, the School Lunch Initiative has realized that vision. “Lunch Love Community” presents a multilayered story of an economically and ethnically diverse community persisting over a decade to reinvent school lunch, and integrate it into an innovative cooking and gardening curriculum. Berkeley’s community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates, politicians and vendors is now leading the national movement to eliminate childhood obesity, and change the way our children eat.
Through struggles and controversy, Berkeley citizens put the democratic process to work, one neighbor, one politician, one piece of legislation at a time. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
The savory short features 2015 Berlinale Kamera honoree Alice Waters, whose vision started Berkeley Unified School District’s free, universal and delicious organic lunch program. The screening preceded a feature-length documentary, discussion with Waters, and dinner lovingly prepared by a top chef.
The Parent Factor looks at the original group of parents pioneers in the 1990s and how they organized to change the way Berkeley children eat in school. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
An online documentary project offering shareable films, community engagement, and creative resources to inspire change in the way kids eat. In 1999, The Berkeley School District created its groundbreaking food policy with the goal to “provide nutritious, fresh, tasty, locally grown food that reflects Berkeley’s cultural diversity.” Ten years later, the School Lunch Initiative has realized that vision. “Lunch Love Community” presents a multilayered story of an economically and ethnically diverse community persisting over a decade to reinvent school lunch, and integrate it into an innovative cooking and gardening curriculum. Berkeley’s community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates, politicians and vendors is now leading the national movement to eliminate childhood obesity, and change the way our children eat.
It took more than 10 years to reinvent the Berkeley school lunch program and create the Dining Commons. Everyone wants to know, can we do it? The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
At Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, twice per month 400 children experience cross-disciplinary learning in the garden. It's school under sky. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
The Labor of Lunch shows the hard work that happens every morning in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) Central Kitchen and how it relates to the wider network of around instituting this kind of systemic change. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
Flamin' Hot glimpses into a middle school science class, "What's On Your Plate," to reflect how kids behave even when they conduct experiments with the combustion of a Hot Cheeto. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.