Lunch Line Documentary Screening

Lunch Line is an exciting documentary that reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a weak patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program.

The film tracks key moments in school food and child nutrition the 1940s to the present – revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people realize.

Along the way, Senators, Secretaries of Agriculture, entrepreneurs, and activists from across the political spectrum add top-down perspective to a bottom-up film about the American political process, the health and welfare of its future, and the realities of feeding more than 31 million children a day.

Screening will be held April 30 at the Evanston Public Library: 1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston.  Doors open at 2 p.m.  Screening starts at 2:30 p.m.

Post-screening discussion:       

Hardy Murphy, District 65 superintendent of schools       
Debbie Hillman, chair of the Evanston Food Policy Council         Rochelle Davis, Pres. and CEO of the Healthy Schools Campaign         Carl Caneva, Evanston Health Dept       
Michele Hays, a District 65 parent who writes a blog about food education and food security.