The Ceres Food Film Festival is an annual international film festival dedicated to increasing awareness of food-related issues around the world.

Our recipe of serving stories and digestible conversations between the audiences and filmmakers make for an interactive platform to advocate with flavorful knowledge, dignity and hope.

THE CAUSE

Food is a basic human right. Food production and consumption effects on the environment are our responsibility. We are taking a critical look at the social and political structures surrounding food insecurity, quality and waste globally and in the US. Globally, people living in poverty in developing countries often spend 60-80% of their income on food. Americans spend less than 10%. Over 1 billion people suffer from starvation and undernourishment worldwide and approximately 1,6 billion people from overeating and obesity. Conflict is a major driver of hunger - 489 million of 815 million undernourished people and 122 million of 155 million stunted children live in countries affected by conflict. In America, In 2018, 11% of households in America experienced food insecurity; up to 40% of food produced in the United States goes uneaten every year; and because of the obesity rate, the current generation of children will be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.

In the globally connected world we live in today, such food issues should not exist. Through the Ceres Food Film Festival we call upon filmmakers to explore solutions and shed light on this shared reality.

OUR MOTIVATION

We want to talk about relationships, specifically our relationship to food and the many intertwined factors that impact the way we eat: what we eat, when we eat, how we eat, and why so many of us are hungry.

We speak the language that our global culture listens to - film. Access to nutritious food is a right, a basic human right. We should be able to get the food we need in a dignifying way, not out of charity but as our entitlement as human beings. We believe that the discussion around food issues must be regarded as systemic in a world of plenty.

The taboo that stops people from speaking out, seeking help or demanding change must be lifted. Through CFFF, we challenge both professional filmmakers and food insecure people with first-hand experience to express their reality. Our goal is for people to share short, visually stunning and thematically captivating films.

We invite you to join us... because we all eat.