What is Dive!/The Gleaners and I about?

Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and Slow Food Los Angeles Present: DIVE!, 2010, 45 min. By turns amusing and infuriating, this multi-award-winning documentary looks at the staggering amount of perfectly good food - more than 250 million pounds a day - that goes to waste in this country. Director Jeremy Seifert and friends bring the point home by dumpster-diving behind Los Angeles supermarkets and salvaging thousands of dollars’ worth of groceries that would otherwise go straight into a landfill. THE GLEANERS & I (LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE), 2001, Zeitgeist, 82 min. French New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda’s marvelous "wandering road documentary" focuses on the centuries-old tradition of "gleaning" in France literally, picking up the cast-offs of others. Discussion following with guest panelists TBA, who will elaborate on several of the issues raised in the films to present a local perspective.

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What is Dive!/The Gleaners and I about?: Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and Slow Food Los Angeles Present: DIVE!, 2010, 45 min. By turns amusing and infuriating, this multi-award-winning documentary looks at the staggering amount of perfectly good food - more than 250 million pounds a day - that goes to waste in this country. Director Jeremy Seifert and friends bring the point home by dumpster-diving behind Los Angeles supermarkets and salvaging thousands of dollars’ worth of groceries that would otherwise go straight into a landfill.

THE GLEANERS & I (LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE), 2001, Zeitgeist, 82 min. French New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda’s marvelous "wandering road documentary" focuses on the centuries-old tradition of "gleaning" in France literally, picking up the cast-offs of others. Discussion following with guest panelists TBA, who will elaborate on several of the issues raised in the films to present a local perspective.