Food Medicine
A film by Lani Cupchoy, Ph.D.
Director-Executive Producer-Producer-Writer-Cinematographer-Editor
Documentary short (2020)
Deep in the suburbs of Los Angeles, CA during the COVID-19 pandemic, mother and daughter use undervalued home garden methods to grow and share fresh healthy abundant produce with family, neighbors, and friends.
The Food Medicine Project
The Food Medicine Project is a mother-daughter home gardens endeavor to experiment with two undervalued forms of home gardening – Vertical Wall gardens and Crack gardens – and prove how these low maintenance methods in urban-suburban spaces can yield fresh healthy abundant produce directly to the kitchen tables of family, neighbors, and friends. As food is our medicine, we need to be mindful of what we are eating in order to heal and maintain our bodies.
Food Medicine (2020) | Official Trailer from Lani Cupchoy on Vimeo.
IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12805264/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Webpage:
https://www.lanicupchoy.com/food-medicine-project
Director Bio:
Dr. Lani Cupchoy is a self-contained creative and passionate storyteller rooted in social justice and K-18 education. Her credits include Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, and Choreographer. Film has allowed her to deepen and broaden scholarly activities that disseminate scholarship in more accessible ways while fostering civic engagement and empowering communities. For her first directorial debut, Lani’s award-winning documentary Truth Seekers (2016) tells the story of how Fifth graders and their teacher from Bell Gardens Elementary took on the California State Capitol and successfully championed the passage of AB 146 requiring that the unconstitutional deportations of Mexican-Americans be included in textbooks. For her second major film, Lani served as Executive Producer-Producer-Writer for Urban Seeds (2019), an award-winning documentary that highlights the story of a grassroots school-based garden movement’s extraordinary passion for food justice in urban Los Angeles and their fight to transform neighborhoods and schools into healthier communities.
