It’s been a long decade plus wait since Christopher Dillon Quinn‘s Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us (2006) disarmed auds, and with the 45th future US president unable to root climate change with overwhelming consensus scientific claims, Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 memoir to film treatment couldn’t come at a more critical time. The Natalie Portman backed Eating Animals might be the best horror film featured in Park City.
Gist: Eating Animals is the feature-length documentary adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s critically acclaimed book of the same name. The film reveals through intimate narratives what has happened to our country in the past 40 years as we have moved away from traditional farming communities to massive industrial farming complexes that produce a seemingly endless supply of so-called “cheap” meat, eggs, and dairy. What starts out as a simple question – where does our meat come from? – quickly takes us down the rabbit hole of today’s industrial animal agriculture and becomes an exploration of the ultimate stakes of eating animals, the destruction of farming, and the complete unwinding of the American mythos.
Production Co./Producers: Natalie Portman (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Jonathan Safran Foer, Christopher Dillon Quinn
Prediction: U.S. Documentary Comp. or Premieres Doc.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
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