A place at the table

Resource Information

The work A place at the table represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A place at the table

Statement of responsibility

Participant Media presents a Catalyst Films/Silverbush production ; a Lori Silverbrush/Kristi Jacobson film ; produced by Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington ; produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush

Title variation

One nation, underfed

Contributor

• Participant Media,
• Participant Media,
• Gavin, Madeleine,
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-
• Johnson, Kirsten, (Kirsten Boyd,)
• Civil Wars (Musical group),
• Johnson, Kirsten, (Kirsten Boyd,)
• Scott, Andrea B.,
• Civil Wars (Musical group),
• Scott, Andrea B.,
• Silverbush, Lori,
• Silverbush, Lori,
• Catalyst Films,
• Catalyst Films,
• Tsien, Jean,
• Tsien, Jean,
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-
• Burnett, T-Bone,
• Gavin, Madeleine,
• Gold, Daniel B.,
• Burnett, T-Bone,
• Gold, Daniel B.,
• Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm),
• Goldman, Julie,
• Goldman, Julie,
• Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm),
• Harrington, Ryan,
• Harrington, Ryan,

Composer

• Burnett, T-Bone,
• Civil Wars (Musical group),
• Civil Wars (Musical group),
• Burnett, T-Bone,

Director of photography

• Gold, Daniel B.,
• Johnson, Kirsten, (Kirsten Boyd,)
• Johnson, Kirsten, (Kirsten Boyd,)
• Gold, Daniel B.,

Editor of moving image work

• Tsien, Jean,
• Tsien, Jean,
• Scott, Andrea B.,
• Scott, Andrea B.,
• Gavin, Madeleine,
• Gavin, Madeleine,

Film director

• Silverbush, Lori,
• Silverbush, Lori,
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-

Film producer

• Silverbush, Lori,
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-
• Jacobson, Kristi, 1971-
• Harrington, Ryan,
• Harrington, Ryan,
• Goldman, Julie,
• Goldman, Julie,
• Silverbush, Lori,

Presenter

• Participant Media,
• Participant Media,

Production company

• Catalyst Films,
• Catalyst Films,

Publisher

• Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm),
• Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm),

Subject

• United States
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Poverty -- United States
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Food relief
• Food relief -- United States
• Food relief -- United States
• Food security
• Food security -- United States
• Food security -- United States
• Hunger
• Hunger -- United States
• Hunger -- United States
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Poor
• Poor -- United States
• Poor -- United States
• Poverty
• Documentary films
• Poverty -- United States

Genre

• Documentary films
• Video recordings
• Nonfiction films
• Feature films

Language

eng

Summary

"Fifty million people in the U.S.--one in four children--don't know where their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Siverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. Ultimately, A place at the table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides--as they have in the past--that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all"--Container

Awards note

Official Selection Sundance Film Festival, 2012

Cataloging source

JHE

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directors of photography, Daniel B. Gold, Kirsten Johnson ; music, T. Bone Burnett and The Civil Wars ; editing, Madeleine Gavin, Jean Tsien, Andrea B. Scott

Runtime

84

Technique

live action