Film Screening: DIVE!

In collaboration with Vineyard Conservation Society continues - our series of films on the environment called "GREEN ON SCREEN", in part funded by the MV Permanent Endowment.

"...An eye-opening expose on the excesses and waste of the American food industry."
-The News Tribune

“Jeremy Seifert is my new Michael Pollan, Morgan Spurlock and Chef Ann Cooper in that he brings to our attention - for lack of a better term, an inconvenient truth: We waste too much food in this country…”
-Flavorista

"One of the film’s great strengths is that it offers a solution, and that is simply to stop wasting food."
-BioCycle Magazine

Jeremy Seifert's muckraking documentary rests on a sad and jarring fact: each year, Americans discard around 96 billion pounds of edible food, and send it directly to landfills - when hundreds of countries around the world exist below the poverty line. In Dive!, Seifert and co. go "dumpster diving" in the back-alley receptacles of L.A.-area supermarkets. During their journey, they manage to retrieve thousands of dollars worth of decent food, which raises vital questions about why such waste continues to occur, while numerous overseas populations starve.

USA * 2010 * 55 minutes * Documentary * Not-rated