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Workshop & Documentary Screening, a REEL WOMEN Event
December 6, 2009
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REEL WOMEN presents the documentary "Eating Alaska" with filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein and producer Shirley Thompson in attendance. "Eating Alaska" is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. It is about trying to break away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths. The film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful, and sustainable food that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters, scrutinizing food labels with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a small village public school, and exploring how others in the last frontier,
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The Independent at 501 Studios
501 N. IH-35
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