Jackie Zabel

The Labor of Lunch shows the hard work that happens every morning in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) Central Kitchen and how it relates to the wider network of around instituting this kind of systemic change. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.

The savory short features 2015 Berlinale Kamera honoree Alice Waters, whose vision started Berkeley Unified School District’s free, universal and delicious organic lunch program. The screening preceded a feature-length documentary, discussion with Waters, and dinner lovingly prepared by a top chef.

Justice, opportunity, connection, equity, friendship, respect, experience, community, knowledge, health, success, love – what do I, you, we…hunger for?

Saaty-Tafoya reflects on her eight week sabbatical, during which she visited healthcare centers across the United States that are innovators in diverse design and practice, to learn how to merge service delivery transformation, hospitality, sustainability, and community.

David and Johnathan are young African-American men passionate about their jobs managing a fresh produce stand in an East Bay “food desert.” Their routine and work for Farm Fresh Choice opens up the world and its needs to them.

At Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, twice per month 400 children experience cross-disciplinary learning in the garden. It's school under sky. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs.

The mission of Community Music Center is to make high quality music accessible to all people, regardless of financial status.

Ann Cooper is the tough, hard-working chef whose convictions drive her to reinvent herself as a school reform activist. She takes on the professional challenge to overhaul in only three short years, the neglected and dysfunctional Berkeley school lunch system.

The Parent Factor looks at the original group of parents pioneers in the 1990s and how they organized to change the way Berkeley children eat in school. The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.

School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory environment and to her own family history.

Making from-scratch meals for 5,000 kids is hard work for everyone, and it happens every day at the Berkeley Public Schools Central Kitchen. Part of the Lunch Love Community series.

It took more than 10 years to reinvent the Berkeley school lunch program and create the Dining Commons. Everyone wants to know, can we do it? The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.

An online documentary project offering shareable films, community engagement, and creative resources to inspire change in the way kids eat. In 1999, The Berkeley School District created its groundbreaking food policy with the goal to “provide nutritious, fresh, tasty, locally grown food that reflects Berkeley’s cultural diversity.” Ten years later, the School Lunch Initiative has realized that vision. “Lunch Love Community” presents a multilayered story of an economically and ethnically diverse community persisting over a decade to reinvent school lunch, and integrate it into an innovative cooking and gardening curriculum. Berkeley’s community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates, politicians and vendors is now leading the national movement to eliminate childhood obesity, and change the way our children eat.

Each of the stories celebrates pioneers of a national movement to engage encore workers, adults age 50+, in solving problems, meeting important social needs, and improving life for people and communities