The team is clicking, we are making progress and, more than anything, all of us are
more and more eager to get our message out there. Food insecurity is a bigger problem
in Philadelphia than anywhere else in the country and, unlike other parts of the country,
it is not getting better, it is getting worse. This is why we are all so committed to this
documentary. It seems like every time we meet to debrief on the last interview and
prepare for the next interview, one of us has read a new article on the subject or spoken
with someone full of insights from the front lines of the battle.
Last week, we shot an interview with Jon Deutsch of the Drexel Food Lab that was both
sobering, eye-opening and inspiring. This man convinced us that the solutions are there
and ready to go but, for whatever reason or reasons, very little has actually been set in
motion. Our documentary seeks to correct this issue, to get the work done and the
people fed.
This week we interviewed Professor Judith Levine of Temple University. Where Jon
Deutsch comes to the issue as a food industry veteran, Professor Levine views the issue
through a social-economic lens with her background in studying poverty. Besides that
angle, she is also active in the field of gender and race studies, both of which often
factor into issues of food insecurity. We are so eager to hear what she has to say.
Speaking of Temple University, where both director Kaloni Davis and screenwriter David
J. Greenberg studied film; the team plans to attend a screening of Pardon Me, a
documentary about the little-known or understood topic of getting a pardon after being
convicted of a crime. The film has won several awards and director Shuja Moore was
gracious enough to meet with us and discuss the process of producing this inspiring
film.