“Watch what you eat” used to be a commonly heard expression, typically urged in the context of dieting. But the maxim applies in a different way in the documentary Fork in the Road, which made its world premiere Saturday at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California’s wine country.
The film directed by Vivian Sorenson and Jonathan Nastasi invites viewers to reevaluate the current American food system which has achieved massive scale, delivery of cheap calories to consumers and immense profits to mega corporations but at the expense of healthy food and sustainable practices.
“The antagonist of the film really is the industrial food system,” Nastasi observed at a Q&A following the world premiere. But this is not a film about the bad guys – it’s about the good guys who are reconnecting people to the land, innovating in farming methods, and working toward a sustainable future of
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