Research project
‘Food on Film’: Community-led film making in the context of Bradford food sustainability
- Start date: 1 December 2023
- End date: 31 July 2024
- Value: £10,000
- Partners and collaborators: Tim Howells, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Ben Fletcher, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Five Community-based organisations in Bradford: - Inn Churches - Feeding Bradford and Keighley - Catholic Care - Horton Community Farm - Eden Association
- Primary investigator: Dr Rory Padfield
- Co-investigators: Paul Cooke (Arts, Humanities and Culture), Laura Smith (Sustainability Research Institute), Nina Willment (Sustainability Research Institute), Morgan Campbell (Sustainability Research Institute), Catherine Graves (Sustainability Research Institute)
- External co-investigators: Dr Alexandra Dales, York St John University
How can we talk about food, health, and sustainability in a meaningful way? What tools do we need and who needs to be part of these conversations? This project, led by Rory Padfield (Sustainability Research Institute) and in partnership with Bradford Council, aimed to train Bradford based community-run organisations in participatory film-making and critical sustainability storytelling. The result is five unique and powerful documentary-style films on food sustainability themes produced by the five organisations involved in the project.
Impact
The community groups have all produced a film about a food sustainability issue important to their own organisation. These films are being screened in Bradford a different events and venues to share with varied audiences these pressing concerns and issues. For example, the films will be screened as part of the Bradford Science Festival in the Autumn 2025. Furthermore, the community groups are all trained in participatory film-making and critical sustainability storytelling which can be used for the production of future films and/or support other organisations create their own films.