Meat the Future- See it on Planet in Focus Festival

 MEAT THE FUTURE a film by Liz Marshall

Meat the Future - Where's the Beef?

With the recent news of the Cargill plant in Calgary having to close because of Coronavirus infected workers it shows how vulnerable our food industry is. It is predicted that by 2050 we will not have enough food to feed the world so we need to figure out a solution for people to survive in the future.

This film is very eye-opening and thought provoking. I found I had conflicted feelings of balancing the genetic creation of food and the current practice of food production. I understand that there are inhumane food production practices because of the demand for beef and chicken, but I am also afraid of some of these new techniques because it opens the door for people to market food that nobody knows what will be in it or how it will affect health. I see the plant based craze for Beyond the Meat that still has stabilization chemicals in it but avoids the beef processing system so it solves people's animal rights issues and hopefully people understand that it's not a 100% health food.

This film will leave you thinking well past viewing this documentary and will have you thinking about it everytime you head to your grocery store to do your weekly shopping.

Birth of an industry 

 

An official Planet in Focus 2020 selection

See Meat The Future at Planet in Focus on  on Wed, Oct 14, 2020 12:00pm EST

(Virtual) More details here.

TRAILER

Award-winning The Ghosts in Our Machine director Liz Marshall returns with a new eye opening documentary about the future of meat.

Meat the Future, a story of the future of feeding the planet with a new innovation of cell-based meat. 

The goal is to innovate and produce real meat without slaughtering animals and without environmental destruction.

Currently we can see the results of food production during a pandemic with Beef Producers in Calgary and in the U.S. having shut down because of staff illness.

Animal agriculture dominates nearly half of the world’s land surface, producing more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation. The prospect of meat consumption doubling by 2050 is not only sobering, it is a wake-up call for solutions. Compared to conventionally-produced beef, cell-based beef is estimated, at scale, to reduce land use by more than 95%, climate change emissions by 74% to 87%, and nutrient pollution by 94%.

While plant-based eating is on the rise, a mass conversion to vegetarianism is unlikely. So, the planet’s future may lie with cell-based meat, also known as “clean meat” and “cultivated meat”, a scientific process of growing animal cells to harvest real poultry, beef, pork, fish and seafood. 

Meat the Future follows the genesis phase of the clean meat movement in America, behind the scenes with its pioneers – they are activists, scientists, researchers, marketers and policy experts, all focused on the goal of an ethical, sustainable and profitable food future. 

Meat the Future is seen through the experience of Mayo Clinic-trained cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of start-up company Memphis Meats. Valeti and his team are at the forefront of an industry, they have attracted worldwide interest and investment from the likes of billionaire influencers Bill Gates and Richard Branson and from food giant corporations Tyson and Cargill, and others. 

The founders have to navigate the process of the complicated regulatory processes in Washington, D.C. There, ranchers, farmers, and conventional meat lobby groups fight to protect their recognized brand of meat and beef “harvested in the traditional manner,” while representatives from the cellular agricultural community work to define a clear regulatory framework, urging America to be first to market. 

You will salivate as you watch top-ranked chefs perform their magic on the meat-of-the-future. 

Produced in association with documentary Channel, the Canada Media Fund and
the Redford Center Grants with funding provided by the New York Community Trust.
Produced with the participation of the Rogers Cable Network Fund.

Writer-Director-Producer: Liz Marshall

Executive Producers: Janice Dawe, Chris Hegedus

Associate Producer: Jessica Jennings

Editors: Caroline Christie, Roland Schlimme

Cinematographer: John Price

Music Composer: Igor Correia

The Ringmaster Documentary- Onion rings and a side of real life

THE RINGMASTER an Award Winning Documentary   will be released  by 1091 PICTURES (formerly THE ORCHARD) on DIGITAL | ON DEMAND starting OCTOBER 6^th.  

THE RINGMASTER

 A Capp Bros. Production in association 

with Asteroid and Space Metals Recovery

88 minutes | Documentary | HD | USA | English 

DIGITAL | VIDEO ON DEMAND OCTOBER 6th!

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/323592979

 I was able to preview this documentary and could totally relate to the situation of the filmmaker who had good intentions of helping the elderly Minnesota chef and his story of how popular his onion ring recipe was but was all in and got in over his head in the production of the film which took a turn in a whole other direction.   I can also relate to the filmmaker dealing with the subject as I have had to deal with something similar in my life.  This film turns into much more than the story of a plate of Onion Rings.

You will want the onion rings and you will get invested in the life of the filmmaker and subject at the same time.

SYNOPSIS

Upon his grandfather’s death, a recovering gambling addict (ZACHARY CAPP) used his inheritance to make a documentary about well-known onion rings from his childhood and the beloved Minnesotan chef (LARRY LANG) who makes them. His project changes drastically when the fledging filmmaker becomes hellbent on improving the humble fry cook’s life, despite discovering his subject wants nothing to do with the film. The movie becomes something else entirely when the crew members secretly turn the cameras on the filmmaker, documenting his efforts and failures over a three-year journey. 

About the Filmmaker:

Zachary Capp (Executive Producer/Producer/Writer/Editor/Cast) - Zachary Capp is a writer, editor & producer from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has produced various projects including music videos, commercials, & the feature documentary "The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?" as well as an award-winning 3D short film for DirecTV original programming. Zachary has edited the majority of the video billboards for the major hotels on the Las Vegas strip. He has a degree in Television & Radio Production from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. 

A portion of all proceeds from the film will benefit Alzheimer's research that plays an integral role in Larry Lang's life. 

SOCIAL MEDIA 

FACEBOOK: facebook.com/theringmasterfilm

INSTAGRAM: @theringmasterfilm 

TWITTER:  @RingmasterFilm

ROTTEN TOMATOES PAGE:

The Ringmaster (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/323592979

FESTIVAL ACCOLADES 

Best Documentary at Festival of Cinema NYC

Audience Award Best Documentary at Silver State Film Festival in Las Vegas

Best Screenwriting Award at DOC LA

Best Documentary North Europe Intl Film Festival in London 

Why does the brutally keep repeating?

 VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER  - THINK DON'T SHOOT!!

I was going to do a twitter post after watching the latest press conference by the family of Jacob Blake.  The recent victim of 7 gun shots from Police in Wisconsin. Why does this keep happening?

This man was trying to help 2 people and for some reason Police officers were harassing him while he was trying to get into his car.  Sitting in the car were the man's 3 sons who will now be scarred for life and have a lifelong fear of Police and of something bad happening to them and other people they care about.  

I am glad to hear that Jacob lived but he will have to deal with the consequences and the costs and trauma for life.  His whole family will be affected.  And what will happen to the Police officer that shot him in the back 7 times?  Will he suffer life long trauma and medical expenses?  Maybe legal expenses or nothing will happen to him.  If he gets fired from the Police he can probably still get another job but what will Jacob be able to do if he has to have surgeries for the foreseeable future.

I am white and I don't agree with this brutality of the way Police handle these issues.  They need to learn how to de-escalate situations instead of inflaming them.  They need to be on notice that this brutality on unarmed or on people that are not a threat to their safety.  They all should be able to walk away from a scene and deal with issues of injustice in court.  That's what courts are for.  Not jails for innocent people.  The judgement needs to match the crime no matter who commits it.

I do not agree with the Protests that take over the streets and trash a city.  I understand the frustration but that is not the answer to fix this problem.  I believe the Press Conference with the family speaking truth and their impact is far more valuable.  

The laws need to change.  The system needs to change.  The training needs to change.  People need to learn how to deal with others and treat them with respect.  

Jacob's mother spoke very well about the color of ones skin and how the vandalism does not represent her family.  I do not think they help this man sitting in a hospital bed.  They need to address the actual Police officer and they need to support the family directly with the support and money he will need to heal.  He will need medical and emotional treatments for a long time and the family will need support.

This man was a family man with small children.  This should not keep happening over and over again.

It's like the unnecessary gun violence that spread throughout the US repeatedly.

The World is Broken.  The US is on display for the world to see on CNN.  Let's change the channel and make the news about heroic feats instead of videos of Black Men being murdered by White Police Officers.

It Needs to Stop!!  Black Lives Matter but so does the Trauma that spreads through the World like a tidal wave in the Ocean about to crash on the shore.

Shooting anyone 7 times is not to stop someone it's to Kill someone.   Excessive force is obvious and the heads that fire those shots need to roll and people need to be accountable.

Enough is Enough.  When is going to Stop?

The Police are supposed to Serve and Protect!!!

ICFF presents the Lavazza Drive-in Film Festival in July in Toronto

This year due to Covid 19 the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) was unable to present their June film festival in Toronto due to the pandemic emergency closures.

In a technology and creatively driven way they decided to take the Festival to a Drive-In Format at Ontario Place by the lake in Toronto.  July 20-31, 2020

Get out of your house and go to a real film festival instead of watching one on your computer or tv.

Twelve international contemporary films have been programmed for viewing on a Huge screen that is being built just for ICFF and it will run from July 20th
through the 31st.

The festival is being presented by ICFF, IC Savings, and CHIN Radio/TV, who will provide the audio portion on their CHIN radio channel.
The Festival will offer something for everyone - from comedies to musicals, historical dramas to crime thrillers to family-friendly films, and everything in between. A different nation will be represented each night at Ontario Place, including France, China, Russia, the US, the UK, Brazil, India, Canada, and Italy. The event will open on Monday, July 20th with the Toronto Premiere Screening of Sergio Navarretta’s The Cuban, representing Canada. The film, which follows the
budding friendship between an Alzheimer patient and his caregiver, is a musical
journey of love and the power of imagination.

Throughout the Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival, four contemporary Italian films
will be screened as part of the special “Focus on Italy” series, presented in
partnership with the Embassy of Italy in Ottawa and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Toronto.

They will move the festival to Vaughan in August and there are still plans for a scaled down festival in November 2020.

A portion of ticket sales will go directly to the Canadian Red Cross to
assist with COVID-19 relief efforts.

On Tuesday, July 21st, Simone Spada’s Tomorrow’s a New Day/Domani è un altro giorno will be screened.
The film is the touching story of two friends reflecting on a life well-lived, after one is handed a terminal diagnosis.
Fausto Brizzi’s If You Love Me/Se mi vuoi bene, starring ICFF fan-favourite Claudio Bisio, is the story of a middle-aged man, feeling depressed and confused, who executes a series of lies and manipulations to help his loved ones. The film will be screened on Saturday, July 25th.

On Monday, July 27th, the International Premiere of the latest film starring comedy troupe Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, I Hate Summer/Odio l’estate, will be presented. The film, directed by Massimo Venier, follows three strangers who are forced to spend the summer holiday together, after accidentally being booked in the same vacation home.

Lastly, the Festival will close on Friday, July 31st with the Canadian Premiere Screening of the touching comedy-drama, If Only/Magari, directed by Ginevra Elkann. It’s the story of three tight-knit siblings who spend their summer caught between the eccentric lives of their divorced parents, each more concerned with themselves than their family.

Among the international titles, the Canadian Premiere Screening of the crime thriller Sheep Without a Shepherd/Wu sha, directed by Sam Quah, will represent China on Wednesday, July 22nd.
The film, which made history with its highest-grossing opening weekend sales in Mainland China, tells the story of a man who takes desperate measures to try and save his family from the dark side of the law, after committing an unexpected crime.

The Canadian Premiere Screening of the hilarious comedy Fisherman’s Friends, representing the UK, will be screened on Sunday, July 26th. The film, directed by Chris Foggin, is the story of a London music exec who becomes a true “fish out of water" when he tries to sign a record deal with a group of singing fishermen.

Jorge Gurvich’s football dramedy Back to Maracanã will represent Brazil on Thursday, July 23rd. The film follows three generations of men who embark on an unplanned road trip, which leads them on an emotional journey, changing them all forever.
Representing France, Nicolas Vanier’s Spread Your Wings/Donne-moi des ailes is a delightful adventure the whole family can enjoy. Screening on Friday, July 24th, the film is inspired by the real life story of a visionary scientist on a mission to save an endangered species of birds, and guide them along a new migratory route.

Representing Russia, Aleksey Sidorov’s WWII action flick T-34 will screen on Tuesday, July 28th
. T-34 is a story of unfailing bravery, and the incredible escape of a soldier and his tank crew from Nazi capture. The critically-acclaimed historical drama is presented with the generous support of the Representative of Rossotrudnichestvo in Canada within the Russian Embassy.
A truly heartwarming tale representing the United States, The Peanut Butter Falcon, winner of the SXSW Audience Award, will be presented on Wednesday, July 29th. Co-directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, the critically-acclaimed film is a modern-day Mark Twain adventure; the harrowing tale of a young man fighting the odds to achieve his dreams with the help of two unlikely friends.

The penultimate screening of the Festival is Amar Kaushik’s latest film Bala, representing India, which will be screened on Thursday, July 30th. Bala is a fresh new comedy about the struggles of a young man facing premature baldness and his inability to cope with social pressures.

Audience members will be invited to vote on their favourite films over the course of the Festival, and a prize for People’s Choice will be awarded on the last day.

A selection of short films will also be screened ahead of the feature presentations, including Milkoffee, directed by Edoardo Vanja Raffaele; Best Friend, directed by Sara Cardillo; The Mona Lisa’s Aura, directed by Eric Delbaere; and Finding Harold, directed by Katarzyna Kochany.

After months of isolation, the event will transform the most classic movie-going experience into a
contemporary film festival, providing Canadians the perfect opportunity to engage with the community once again, in a safe and physically-distanced manner. To eliminate concerns over large crowds at concession stands during the event, the Festival has partnered with sponsor Pizza Nova to design a tailored app which offers contactless delivery of snacks directly to vehicles.
The audio of the presentations and the films will be broadcast live on Radio CHIN - AM1540. Each
evening of the Festival, a feature film will be preceded by live and live-streamed interviews and
Question & Answer sessions with actors and directors.

Visit www.icff.ca
 or call 416-893-3966 for ticket information.