The entertainment company Participant Media is one I stumbled upon a couple weeks ago in search (out of boredom) for some internships… I couldn’t actually apply for any of them due to school/location but I went on their website and realized Participant Media is the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, The Kite Runner, and many [...]
The entertainment company Participant Media is one I stumbled upon a couple weeks ago in search (out of boredom) for some internships… I couldn’t actually apply for any of them due to school/location but I went on their website and realized Participant Media is the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, The Kite Runner, and many other socially-conscious movies.
There are so many movies that look realllly amazing that are coming out in theaters soon from Participant Media. Some include [click on the links to see previews] –
Standard Operating Procedure (DVD Oct. 14): examines the Abu-Ghraib photographs and post-9/11 government policies. Includes discussion of the Geneva Conventions.
Darfur Now (now on DVD): six stories dealing with the genocide in Darfur.
The Soloist (in theaters Nov. 21): a true story chronicling the life of a former musician who is homeless. This movie explores issues such as “homelessness and mental illness, as well as the healing nature of music.”
Here is one that is coming out in theaters soon. The date is still undisclosed but here’s a synopsis from the website:
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli–the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Sounds interesting to me… I will post more about this when I know the release date!
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