OK, by now you know that the Oxford Film Festival is this week, February 4 to 7. However, you may not have had time to look through the guide and search for all of the films related to food. Luckily for you, I did!
In addition to dozens of interesting films making their Oxford debut, don’t miss feeding your foodie hunger with the following (for the full movie schedule, click here)…
Dive, 2/5 @ 11:15 a.m., 2/6 @ 12:30 p.m. (Malco 3)
Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food. Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to toss it rather than donate it? Whatever the answer, the contradiction is profound: good food is being thrown away and people are going hungry. Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process they uncover thousands of dollars of food and an ugly truth about waste in America.
Dinner On The Grounds: A Soul-Reviving Feast, 2/6 @ 11:15 a.m. (Malco 3)
This documentary presents a three-part discussion of the tradition of “dinner on the grounds” in Mississippi through Sacred Harp Singings, church homecomings, and Memorial Day celebrations.
Tortillas de Maiz, 2/6 @ 11:15 (screens with movie above) (Malco 3)
Profiling the Hernandez family of New Albany, Miss. and their Tortillaria de Cinco Estrellas, this film investigates the ways that Mississippi and the larger South are influenced by Hispanic immigrants, specifically the ways that their traditional foodways are integrated into contemporary southern culture.
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