Arts & Entertainment

Editor's Pick: 'Food Chains' Film and Discussion

Filmmaker Sanjay Rawal and panel will be at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington Sunday.

Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre is screening “Food Chains,” a documentary about farmworkers produced by Eva Longoria, on Sunday, at 1:30 p.m.

Filmmaker Sanjay Rawal will be at the screening, joining a panel discussion with Long Island experts.

The film is part of the Let’s Eat! Food on Film series.

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The documentary follows a group of Florida farmworkers pressuring the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.

Sunday’s panelists include Nathan Berger of the Rural Migrant Ministry of LI; Jeremy Cruz, Theology and Religion Professor, St. John’s University; Rosa Niave Kenny, Ed. PhD Dowling College and former child field laborer; Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster of T’ruah (Rabbis for Human Rights); Moderator Anita Halasz, Executive Director of Long Island Jobs with Justice. The event includes a reception.

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Tickets for CAC, Slow Food & UUFH members are $10; public $15. A reception is included. Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org or at the box office during theater hours.

Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. For more information, call 631-423-7611 or visit www.CinemaArtsCentre.org.

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