Of the land

DVD 2015

"Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional organic farmers have been under constant attack by large c...

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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital optical stereo
NTSC
video file DVD video

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Break Free Video and KITG Productions present Of the land
Subtitle on DVD container: GMOs and the industrial food juggernaut

Notes:

Title from title screen
Chiefly live film footage, including selections from interviews, speeches, and conference presentations by scientists, policy experts, organic farmers, and activists; some archival film clips
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Cinematography by Steven Davies; edited by Bryan Law and Steven Davies; original music by Dan Dicks; sound recorded by Bryan Law
Shiv Chopra, Jeffrey Smith, Gilles-Eric Seralini, Julie Daniluk, Rachel Parent, Ben Sosnicki, Jessie Sosnicki, Ted Snively, Rene Van Acker, James Connor, Jennifer Berman-Diaz, Ramsey Affifi, Ralph Martin, E. Ann Clark, Jennifer Sumner, Levente Diosady, Pete DeAngelo, Ron Vanhart, Iqbal Mauthoor, Catriona Ffrench, Andres Valbuena, Christie Young, Karl Schibli, Ran Goel, Erica Lemieux, Dave Murphy, Jim Gerritsen, Arlan Taylor, Rachel Nevitt, Daniel B. Ravicher, Maria Emmer-Aanes, Deborah Koons Garcia, Susanna Redekop, Craig Scott, David Zuckerman
DVD; NTSC; stereo
Closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired
Official selection, Phoenix Film Festival, 2015. Official selection, Cinema Verde Film Festival, 2015

Contents:

Bonus materials: Trailer (2:30)
Teaser (0:49)
Canadian Organic Growers Conference (1:20:16)
Of the land at the Phoenix Film Festival (9:03)

Control Number:

1529537

UPC:

794571991972

Other Authors:

Break Free Video (Firm), production company
Chopra, Shiv, interviewee, speaker
Daniluk, Julie, speaker
Davies, Steven (Filmmaker), film producer, director of photography, editor of moving image work
Diosady, Levente L., interviewee
Gerritsen, Jim, interviewee
Goel, Ran, interviewee
KITG Productions, production company, publisher
Law, Bryan (Filmmaker), film director, film producer, editor of moving image work
Lemieux, Erica, interviewee
Martin, Ralph C. (Ralph Cameron), 1953- interviewee
Mauthoor, Iqbal, interviewee
Schibli, Karl, interviewee
Séralini, Gilles-Eric, speaker, interviewee
Smith, Jeffrey M., interviewee, speaker
Snively, Ted, interviewee
Sosnicki, Ben, interviewee
Sosnicki, Jessie, interviewee
Van Acker, Rene C. (Rene Chris), 1966- interviewee

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