Fresh Fest: A Food and Farming Film Festival will be presented Friday through Thursday, May 7 to 13, on Images Cinema s virtual cinema platform, watch.eventive.org/imagesvirtual.
Films include The Long Coast, Fruits of Labor, Gather, and Finding Hope in Farmland, world premiere by local filmmakers Dave Simonds and Sarah Gardner.
All films are free to view and will be available for the full week with the exception of Gather, which will be available for one show only.
The festival is produced by Images Cinema, in collaboration with Storey Publishing and the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies.
Produced by Images Cinema, in collaboration with Storey Publishing and the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies, this annual film festival explores the ways farming and food culture impacts our lives in rich and varied ways, and makes links to local farmers and food producers. This year Fresh Fest will happen virtually this year, on Images Virtual Cinema platform, watch.eventive.org/imagesvirtual. All films are free to view and will be available for the full week with the exception of Gather, which will be available for one show only, TBA. This year features a world premiere of Finding Hope in Farmland, a short film by Williamstown-based filmmaking team, director Dave Simonds and producer Sarah Gardner, about a Somali Bantu community starting a farm in upstate New York. The festival also includes The Long Coast, about Maine s changing fishing industry; Fruits of Labor, a documentary about a Mexican American high school student who supports her
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