About PolyCultures
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is a feature-length documentary movie that portrays the diverse communities around Northeast Ohio coming together to grow a more sustainable and local food system. PolyCultures is firmly rooted in the idea that local/sustainable food is good for the health of individuals, communities, local economies, and the environment. To balance the advocacy perspective, it features many national and international experts who place area food production in the bigger picture of sustainability. The term “polyculture” refers to the ecologically-minded technique of growing a diversity of crops/animals on one farm, but it also represents the documentary’s participants coming from very different backgrounds to arrive at similar conclusions and take coordinated action. The aesthetic is a mix of “agrarian” camera techniques portraying postindustrial Cleveland and surrounding farmland, symbolizing the ground-level nature of this movement. PolyCultures was produced by LESS Productions in conjunction with the New Agrarian Center from 2006 to 2009. The movie officially premiered at the 2009 Cleveland International Film Festival, where the number of theaters showing it was doubled due to audience demand!
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Ordering a Home-Use DVD
At this time LESS Productions is handling the distribution of PolyCultures. Our aim is to make it readily available for home use, community screenings, theatrical showings, educational use, and library circulation.
The product we presently have available is officially known as PolyCultures: Food Where We Live - Limited First Release v1.01. The run-time is 100 minutes and it's designed to be shown in widescreen. It’s in color and in stereo, and it should work in all DVD players. The release date is 2009, as is the copyright date.
Please be aware that legally-speaking, a “community showing” is any form of public performance that occurs outside of the home, or at any other place where people are gathered who are not family members, such as in a school, library, business or group meeting. While the DVD used for a community showing may be identical to the home use DVD, it is important (and legally required, per copyright law) that you help fairly compensate the filmmakers by acquiring the proper license if you wish to show the movie publicly. For details on that, please click here.
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is protected by US Copyright Law. Any license you purchase does not include the right to duplicate, digitize, transfer to any other medium, transmit by television or other devices or processes in whole or in part, edit, adapt or alter the program in any way whatsoever, without prior written permission from LESS Productions. For more details on this, please see this printable agreement that applies to any purchase of PolyCultures.
