LUNCH LINE Film Screening and post-film discussion with filmmakers and Founders of Uji Films, Ernie Park and Michael Graziano.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

6:30-9:30pm

$20 Admission includes networking reception prior to screening with light appetizers and cash bar, film screening, and post-film discussion with filmmakers.

Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Bahia Resort Hotel
Mission Ballroom
998 W. Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109

Click here to register for the Lunch Line screening.

ABOUT THE FILM

Every day, millions of school children across the United States grab a lunch tray and get in line. Few, if any, know the history behind the line or that they have the power to change what gets placed on the tray. The new documentary Lunch Line hopes to empower Americans to be part of solutions that can help build a better lunch for future students.

Lunch Line reveals the National School Lunch Program’s surprising history and the unexpected ways it has grown and changed over the years by pulling back the curtain to reveal, through school lunch, how large-scale social change can work.

Lunch Line follows the personal story of six high school students from Chicago who enter a cooking contest to create a healthier school lunch and end up serving their winning meal to congressional leaders and touring the White House with mansion executive chefs. The tale of the students from Tilden Career Community Academy High School is interspersed with archival footage and interviews with current leaders from both ends of the lunch line, including government officials, school foodservice experts and activists.

The Tilden students were challenged to create a meal that exceeds United States Department of Agriculture standards and use only $1 per meal for ingredients. One dollar is the average amount spent on food per child for the National School Lunch Program, according to Rochelle Davis, executive director of the Healthy Schools Campaign, the non-profit organization that holds the “Cooking Up Change” contest that the Tilden students won. “These students were faced with the challenges faced by foodservice directors across the country,” said Davis. “Yet, they also seized the opportunity to learn about school food systems and the need for change."