3 Acres in Detroit and The Starfish Throwers
This pair of films—3 Acres is the opening short—is all about food, and food specifically in a world challenged to provide for those who are, or who are becoming marginalized. It was the down-the-road Detroit connection that first made me pay attention to these two. Detropia played here a couple of years ago (and a bunch if you got to see it), now 3 acres is a bit of an update about another project attempting to make the best of of a difficult situation in that city. The Starfish Throwers picks up on the food theme and runs with it in Minneapolis, small-town South Carolina, and Madurai India, where three individuals are making an amazing difference for the marginalized people in their communities, each responding very directly to local needs. The lesson of Starfish is that anyone, with some persistence, can do a world of good, and it's truly inspiring stuff—this is a classic case of everyone should see this film—and in fact HotDocs will soon be showing it to school groups. In the meantime, here's hoping this one will make the crossover to conventional theatres in the near future.
One more screening: Sunday the 4th
This pair of films—3 Acres is the opening short—is all about food, and food specifically in a world challenged to provide for those who are, or who are becoming marginalized. It was the down-the-road Detroit connection that first made me pay attention to these two. Detropia played here a couple of years ago (and a bunch if you got to see it), now 3 acres is a bit of an update about another project attempting to make the best of of a difficult situation in that city. The Starfish Throwers picks up on the food theme and runs with it in Minneapolis, small-town South Carolina, and Madurai India, where three individuals are making an amazing difference for the marginalized people in their communities, each responding very directly to local needs. The lesson of Starfish is that anyone, with some persistence, can do a world of good, and it's truly inspiring stuff—this is a classic case of everyone should see this film—and in fact HotDocs will soon be showing it to school groups. In the meantime, here's hoping this one will make the crossover to conventional theatres in the near future.
One more screening: Sunday the 4th