Use the film Nourish to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability in your community, organization, school, or home. Whether you’re hosting a public screening, organizing a workshop, or having friends over for a potluck dinner, you’ll find suggestions here for engaging your group.

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1 Design a Program

Preview the Nourish DVD before screening. The DVD includes a 26-minute feature and 11 short films. The film chapters and shorts can be screened start to finish, or mixed and matched to create a custom program based around a theme, such as local food or healthy eating. Choose a program based on how much time you have and what you want to accomplish with your group.

• The Nourish Film: The feature offers a big-picture view of our food system, starting with a global perspective and finishing with tips for individual and group action (26 minutes).
• Film Chapters: For a shorter program, choose one or more chapters from the film. The chapters are entitled Connections, Seed to Table, Vote With Your Fork, and Be the Difference (3 to 8 minutes each).
• Nourish Shorts: Find the 11 short films under Special Features on the DVD. Screen all of the shorts (24 minutes) or choose a selection (1 to 4 minutes each). You can find additional shorts on the Nourish website.

Prior to the screening, come up with a few questions you’d like to pose to your group. This guide provides an array of questions to stimulate reflection and dialogue.

2 Introduce Nourish

Welcome people and introduce yourself. Let the audience know that you’ll be screening the documentary film Nourish: Food + Community. Here are some talking points for introducing the film.

• The tag line for Nourish is What’s the Story of Your Food? Nourish invites us to look beyond our plate and explore where our food comes from.
• The purpose of Nourish is to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability that encourages citizen engagement.
• Nourish is hosted and narrated by actress Cameron Diaz. The film features interviews with best-selling author Michael Pollan, healthy food advocate Anna Lappé, chef Bryant Terry, and pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke.
• The Nourish film is part of an educational initiative that combines public television, curriculum resources, web content, shorts films, and community outreach.

Depending on the size of your group, we recommend you begin with a question or two designed to help everyone feel comfortable reflecting and sharing (see “Introductions” in the Discussion Questions part of this guide).

Dim the lights and start the program. Show the entire video at once, or pause after each chapter for discussion.

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