DU to Screen Documentary on Food Justice for One Earth Film Festival

Dominican University is a host site for the 15th Annual One Earth Film Festival.

This Chicago-based festival screens films that highlight environmental issues and foster understanding of the climate crisis, environmental justice, sustainability, community-building and action-taking.

On Monday, April 27, the documentary film Rooted: Food Justice in America will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in Springer Suites.

To attend in person, register here. To attend a virtual screening, register here.

Both showings are free, but a $10 donation is suggested.

Rooted follows Germaine Jenkins, an activist and urban farmer, in her quest to save her cooperative farm and continue cultivating fresh produce for a neighborhood that had been lacking access to healthy fruit and vegetables for more than a decade. The film examines food apartheid and racial injustice in food systems.

Co-sponsoring this event are DU’s Sustainability Committee, the School of Social Work, OJEI, Office of Civic Learning and Siena Center.

More information about the festival can be found at www.oneearthfilmfest.org.