Field & Screen: Films about Our Food
The food industry grows, processes, and distributes what we eat more cheaply and efficiently than at any point in history. However, many of these advancements have had serious negative impacts on our environment, the nutrition of our food, and the health of the general population. Field & Screen features some of the best recent documentaries to address these issues along with films that illustrate the wonderful pleasures that food offers us.

Tonight's program looks at today's fish and mass-produced food industries, revealing troubling-and often unsustainable-practices.

The End of the Line chronicles the devastating effects of our love affair with fish as food. Filmed over two years around the world, the film follows reporter Charles Clover as he confronts politicians, restaurateurs, and food producers about their harmful policies, practices, and collective impact on this crucial link in the global food chain. (83 mins., video)

Perhaps nothing has brought the industrialization of our food supply to the attention of the general populace more than the documentary Food, Inc. Featuring interviews with notable experts such as Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, the film reveals the often shocking truth about how our food supply is controlled by a handful of corporations that put profits over the health of workers and the people who consume their products. (94 mins., 35mm)