The 20tth Oakland International Film Festival will be at The Freedom Farmers Market.
“The Freedom Farmers’ Market is a multicultural marketplace, named by Dr. Gail Myers, co-founder of Farms To Grow, Inc, as a result of being inspired from the work of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm. The Freedom Farmers’ Market supports the idea of freedom to choose affordable local food and freedom to access fresh food grown by Black farmers. Our mission is to bring traditional non-GMO, chemical free legacy foods from Black farmers and other underserved farmers to the Bay Area for a direct-to-consumer selling opportunity as we engage a community vibe of self-reliance, cooperative community development, and healthy sustainable environments for all.”
Gail Myers
For vendor inquiries email marketing@farmstogrow.com.
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9:00 a.m. The -Freedom Farmers Market opens at 9:00 a.m.
10:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL COMMUNITIES – FEATURING Will Scott PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN- AMERICAN FARMERS OF CALIFORNIA, Richard Campbell – Founder – To Soil Less / Geological Agriculture MODERATED BY: David Roach, Co-Founder/ Director – The Oakland International Film Festival
11:00 A.M. – 2:00 p.m. FILMMAKER MEET AND GREET WITH THE FARMERS! MUSIC BY THE HUNGRYDJPOSSE, FOOD TRUCK, SPECIAL GUESTS.
5:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. – MUSIC THE HUNGRY DJ POSSE/ FOOD @THE FREEDOM FARMERS MARKET
6:00 –7:00 P.M. GROWING HEALTHY FOOD AND COMMUNITIES – SPECIAL GUEST. WANDA STEWART, RICHARD CAMPBELL.
THE FILMS:
7:30 p.m. – 7:41 – REMOTHERING THE LAND (10:38 min)
7:45 – 8:05 – Mama Wanda (20:00 min)
8:05 – 8:27min – GEOAGRICULTURE ( 22:00 MIN)
8:27 – 8:45 – For The Bees
8:45 – 9: 45 p.m. GREENWAY (87:00 min)
Young Black Farmers like Will Smith, a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, work small tracts of available farmland on Huchiun ancestral territory in the Bay Area, California. Will and other farmers share space with members of the Sogorea Té Land Trust, the Indigenous, women-led community focusing on ecological farming and food justice. Their mission to rematriate land aims to restore people to their rightful place in sacred relationship to their ancestral land.
As a field team member of STLT, Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri works with Will to supply fresh organic food to anyone who lacks access to it in their East Bay communities. To both Will and Naz, regenerative-organic farming practices are nothing new. They point out that Indigenous people are indeed the original regenerative organic farmers who have relevant knowledge — not only about growing food, but how to live in harmony with the planet and each other.
Both represent communities who have been adversely affected by the current U.S. food system, born of stolen land and labor. Colonization and slavery have left their impact for generations, where now 98% of farm land is White owned and operated. But, traditional Indigenous farming practices are being recognized, especially amidst a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and economic collapse, as a source of resiliency for local communities, as well as solutions for the larger issues facing our Mother Earth.
Mark Decena – Writer / Director
MARK DECENA is a writer, director and producer of award-winning feature films, television programming, web films, and commercials. A three time Sundance alumni, Mark’s first feature, Dopamine won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Decena’s work spans from narrative features to documentaries, criss crossing various themes from the nature of love to sustainable design, environmental justice to professional stare down.
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