The Grounded Project Presents: Buried Seeds
You are invited to the Premiere of the Second Documentary Film Produced through theGrounded Project- a Faculty of Health and Faculty of Environment and Urban Change initiative.
Through the fall term, students from our faculty, together with supervisors from FEUC and our partner university in Costa Rica created this film (as well as 3 short films) exploring the challenges and well-being of small scale farmers in Costa Rica. More films and student opportunities are to come. Students interested in becoming involved in future episodes are encouraged to visit the website.
Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Format: 2 Part Virtual Event
Part 1:Documentary ScreeningBuried Seeds| 5:00 p.m.Directed by Felipe Montoya
Part 2:Panel Discussion onPeasant Resilience and Wellbeing | 6:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker:Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D. (Concordia University)
RSVP online at:https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lwEL2xprQw6GqESl7LskyQ
About the Documentary
Buried Seeds (Semillas en la Tierra) looks at peasants in Southern Costa Rica as a people who are diverse in many ways, yet proudly share a common identity, suffer similar challenges to their way of life, and hold common values dear. Despite the hardships of their rural way of life, they struggle to maintain it and critique the structural forces that adverse them. Buried Seeds tells this story through the words of twenty narrators, both men and women, young and old, landless and landholders, all of them peasants. This episode was made by the Las Nubes Project in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) and the Faculty of Health (FoH) at York University in collaboration with the Universidad Técnica Nacional de Costa Rica and York Libraries and the financial support of EUC, FoH, York International and York Libraries.
About the Grounded Project
Grounded is a series of short documentaries filmed in rural Costa Rica on issues around environmental sustainability, biodiversity conservation, health, and human well-being, with the idea of revealing structural elements that constrain the pursuit of social and ecological wellbeing, as well as the opportunities that these grounded experiences offer for alternative ways of living. Learn more at:lasnubes.euc.yorku.ca/grounded-project
