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The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
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Eating Alaska
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What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the Alaskan Frontier?
Eating Alaska is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman, deer hunter and environmental activist, it is a journey into food politics, regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths.
In this quest for the “right thing” to eat, the filmmaker stops by a famer's market in the lower 48 stocked with fresh local fruits and vegetables and then heads back to Alaska, climbing mountains and walking into the tundra with women hunters, fishing for wild salmon and communing with vegans in Wasilla. She also travels to Kotzebue and talks with Inupiat teens in home economics class making pretzels while they talk about their favorite traditional foods from moose meat to whale blubber.
The postcard like scenery in Alaska may be a contrast to what most urban residents see everyday and the filmmaker may have gone into the wild, but she also finds farmed salmon, toxics getting into wild foods and the colonization of the indigenous diet.
Eating Alaska doesn't preach or give answers, but points out dilemmas in a style that provokes both laughter and serious discussion.
What is the ethical way to eat in Alaska-or anywhere?
Is it better to shoot a deer than buy tofu that has been shipped thousands of miles?
Where is your comfort level in taking a life for food?
This wry personal look at what's on your plate explores ideas about eating healthy, safe and sustainable food from one's own backyard, either urban or wild, versus industrially produced food shipped thousands of miles.
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About Ellen Frankenstein |
Ellen Frankenstein is the director of four other award-winning documentaries in the New Day collection: Miles from the Border, A Matter of Respect and No Loitering.
She’s been an organizer and educator for community arts and school-based media projects from Los Angeles to Kake, Alaska and has exhibited her still photography nationally and internationally. Before becoming a full-time filmmaker and photographer, Frankenstein worked with the developmentally disabled, migrant farm workers, and the elderly. These experiences inspired her to take photographs and make documentaries to encourage people to tell their stories and participate in sharing their voice by using the technology themselves.
Frankenstein has a Masters in Visual Anthropology from the University of Southern California. Awards and funding include a Fulbright - Hays Fellowship and grants from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities. Frankenstein lives in Sitka, Alaska and has helped her spouse sail a 30-foot wooden gaff-rigged ketch sail boat from Mexico to New Zealand. She is currently working on a film called, Eating Alaska. Eating Alaska is a wry odyssey into sustainable food choices through the eyes of a former vegetarian on a quest to find the "right" thing to eat on the last frontier.
Ellen collaborated with Louise Brady on the creation and outreach of Carved from the Heart . Brady is a member of the Lingit Tribe of Southeast Alaska. She is a Raven (Yeil) of the Frog Clan (Kiks.adi) from the Point House (X'aaka Hit) of Sitka, Alaska (Sheet'ka Kwaan). Brady has worked in human services for years, assisting people to overcome the adversities caused by the social problems that exist in Indian Country. She strongly believes in the practice of sovereignty in Native American communities as a means to overcome these problems and continues to work to achieve sovereignty for her tribe, as a whole, and for each of its tribal citizens. |
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