Tanya Selvaratnam
“What’s On Your Plate?,” which I produced, screened at the South Bronx Food and Film Expo and at the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs as part of their Kids Day program, and was selected as a top weekend pick by The New York Times’ Urban Eye. Julie Bloom of the Times wrote: “This documentary by Catherine Gund takes on the well-trodden terrain of food politics, but this time from the point of view of two 11-year-olds. Over the course of a year, Sadie and Safiyah try to make sense of New York's complicated food systems by visiting farmers, supermarkets, fast-food chains and school lunchrooms. The girls sift through enough layers of the sustainable movement to make Michael Pollan proud…”
Recently I began producing a 10-episode online series about the experiences of New Yorkers in the performing arts. HERE Arts Center conceived the Portrait Project, which is funded by the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, and have kindly brought me on board. Director Chiara Clemente will be joining me in this venture, and I look forward to sharing more news as the series develops.
BOOK DRIVE NEWS: Two huge shipments of books to Sri Lanka in December. Many thanks to everyone who donated. One of the organizations receiving the books is up for the Chase Bank Facebook Challenge. Please take a minute to vote for Sarvodaya:
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/594855
It is very deserving of your vote and of the Chase grant.