Food Patriots begins with a wake up call: filmmakers Jeff Spitz and Jennifer Amdur Spitz’s son got sick eating chicken contaminated with a superbug, and antibiotics failed. The film chronicles the family’s newfound interest in food sources, getting outlaw chickens, and meeting people from all walks of life who are trying to change the way Americans eat food, buy food, and educate the next generation of consumers. They call the people who are doing this Food Patriots.

Food Patriots features urban farmers, organic entrepreneurs, food activists, chefs, 8th graders, high schoolers, college athletes and most surprisingly, a conventional farm family that grows corn and soy while raising thousands of hogs in confinement. This film shows how a family learns to grow together, challenge the status quo and become engaged citizens. It also shows what happens when Jennifer and her college football player son go to Capitol Hill to inform congress about antibiotic resistant superbugs.

After the film, stick around to hear a panel made up of the North Fork Valley’s own food patriots address the question: “How can we be protagonists in our own food story?”

Event Details
6:00 – 6:30pm: Reception with Local Appetizers from the North Fork Valley
6:30 – 6:40 pm: Welcome and opening remarks by a representative from DCI
6:40 – 7:45 pm: Film Screening: “Food Patriots”
7:45 – 8:30 pm: Dessert and a Community Conversation with Moderators: Elaine Brett, President, Friends of the Paradise Theater and Michelle Amiott, Development Director, Valley Food Partnership featuring representatives from Slow Food Western Slope, Teens on Farms, Local Farmacy Rx and the Valley Organic Growers Association, Western Colorado Community Foundation

The Paradise Theatre