A farmer with a machete and a mission versus an entire broken system.
In this food justice documentary, activist and urban farmer Germaine Jenkins is taking on the power structure in Charleston, SC, to counter the tide of toxic food that has ravaged her community for decades. Will this oasis in a food desert survive and advance civil rights' latest frontier, or become another mirage in the battle against food apartheid?
Direction
Intimate vérité that never sanitizes the struggle.
Writing
Jenkins' own words hit harder than any narrator could.
Production
Raw access to political meetings most docs never get.
Director
Bridget Besaw
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film coins 'food apartheid' intentionally—rejecting 'food desert' for its passive, natural imagery.
US
