Climate Film 'Bash'
🌍 Join Beyond Meat, @relauren, and Hollywood Climate Summit in kicking off Earth Month & LA Climate Week with a special film and food experience. In partnership with Hip Hop Caucus, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Scriptation.
🎥 Climate Film ‘Bash’ will spotlight three different projects about ordinary people doing the extraordinary — while celebrating the premiere of Lauren Bash’s new short film, Gimme My Medicine.
🍔 🍷 Plant-based food and drink will be served.
✨ Get ready for an evening that will shift perspectives, challenge misconceptions, and build community!
Event Schedule
6:00PM -- Doors Open
Plant-based food experience kicks off with light bites from Cena Vegan and Hey Sunshine Kitchen.
7:00PM -- Main Program Begins
Introduction by Diandra Marizet & laughs by Esteban Gast and film screenings, see below for loglines of the featured films.
8:15PM — Filmmaker Q+A
Discussed with Lauren Bash, John Lewis, and Nadia Gill, moderated by Bonnie Wright.
8:45PM -- Open Bar & Plant-based Dessert
Networking will close out our evening of storytelling and action!
Films featured include:
Gimme My Medicine (Directed by Lauren Bash) tells the inspiring story of James Neil Ferree, a 67-year-old man whose life was transformed by the power of plant-based eating. For years, James relied on medication to manage his heart disease, a common consequence of a typical American diet. However, a simple 30-day commitment to Veganuary, fueled by the support of his content creator daughter and a massive online community, sparked a remarkable health revolution.
Logline: With the support of his daughter and an online community, 67-year-old Neil Ferree takes control of his health through a plant-based diet, proving that food (and love) is powerful medicine.
Planetwalker (Directed by Nadia & Dominic Gill)
Logline: After witnessing the 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis is determined to travel across America on foot — and in silence.
They’re Trying to Kill Us (Directed by John Lewis & Keegan Kuhn) — (Teaser only, watch the full film on Tubi)
Logline: A filmmaker examines the intersections of food, disease, race, poverty, institutional racism and government corruption to reveal why people of color suffer from disproportionately higher rates of chronic disease.