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Open Minds Open Mouths

A film by Helen De Michiel

To be completed in 2010

In 1999, The Berkeley Unified School District created it’s ground-breaking and influential Food Policy mandating a goal to “provide nutritious, fresh, tasty, locally grown food that reflects Berkeley’s cultural diversity… and ensure that the food served [in the schools] be organic to the maximum extent possible.” A decade later, the Berkeley School Lunch Initiative, under the leadership of Chef Ann Cooper, has realized that dream to offer all students a daily breakfast and lunch that includes locally grown and organic products.

OPEN MINDS OPEN MOUTHS presents a multilayered story of how this determined community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates, politicians and food purveyors in Berkeley are creating a highly replicable program, and leading the national movement to change how our children eat.

The documentary is currently in production, and will be released in 2010.

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