Global Ideas has partnered with the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival to bring you Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014). Directed by Grant Baldwin, this documentary film offers an eye-opening look at the way we grow, cultivate and purchase our food and the devastating impact that food waste is having on the planet. Over the course of six months, filmmakers Jen and Grant quit grocery shopping and attempt to survive solely on discarded food. The film brings together food production experts, chefs, farmers and environmentalists to highlight the magnitude of an important, often overlooked issue. Equally entertaining, as it is educational, Just Eat It prompts us to rethink the way we currently approach food and waste.

• Best Documentary – Leo Awards

• Best Documentary Director – Leo Awards

• Best Documentary Musical Score – Leo Awards

• Audience Award – CPH:DOX

• VIFF Impact Award – Vancouver International Film Festival

• Emerging Canadian Filmmaker & Top 20 Audience Choice – Hot Docs

• People’s Choice Award – Calgary International Film Festival

• Best Canadian Documentary – Edmonton International Film Festival

• Must See BC Winner & Runner Up Most Popular Documentary – Vancouver International Film Festival

• Best Canadian Feature – Planet in Focus

• Best Environmental Film – Sedona International Film Festival

• Grand Jury Prize – EIFF

Sophie Lamond will be leading a post-film discussion on food wastage in Australia. Sophie is the co-founder of the Fair Food Challenge, which uses the power of students and universities to create a fair, healthy and accessible food system. Sophie is a masters students working on corporate social responsibility in food corporations and works on several community food projects