Food Fighter, Mint Pictures’ feature documentary on the global scandal of food waste, premiered on Sunday night at the State Theatre in Sydney.
More than 1800 people packed the building to watch the story of Ronni Kahn, the founder of the food rescue charity OzHarvest, in her globe-trotting crusade to end food waste.
Filmed over two years and across four continents, Food Fighter follows Kahn’s crusade against food waste as she partners with the United Nations in Bangkok, rubs shoulders with British royalty and Jamie Oliver’s juggernaut in London, while holding government and big business to account in Australia.
NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton opened the evening followed by Brad Banducci, the CEO of Woolworths Food Group, which is in partnership with OzHarvest.
The feature-length documentary will now go on cinema release around the country with Village Roadshow and Events Cinemas. Ronni Kahn and Dan Goldberg, who directed the film, will be doing Q&As at various screenings.
Food Fighter has already screened at the Transitions Film Festival in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. It has also screened at the Human Rights Arts Film Festival in Melbourne and Canberra including a Parliamentary screening, and at the BOFA Film Festival in Tasmania.
It has also been officially selected by the Around Films International Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain, and A Show For A Change Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, where it won the 2018 Social Impact Award. It also won two awards at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards – best director and best feature-length documentary.
It was produced with the assistance of Screen Australia. Foxtel has acquired the exclusive TV rights in Australia and NZ, Flame is the international distributor for TV, Goodship is distributing the theatrical and Cinema On Demand in Australia and global VOD, and almost $100,000 in private philanthropy was raised via the Documentary Australia Foundation.
Publicity is in the capable hands of Tracey Mair.
To view the trailer on YouTube, click here and to view the film’s Facebook page click here.
To book tickets to the film, click here.
