TASTE THE WASTE
A documentary about global food waste and what we can do about it. Agriculture is responsible for more than a third of the greenhouse gases worldwide because farming requires energy, fertilizers and land. What's more, whenever food rots away at a garbage dump, methane escapes into the atmosphere, a climate gas with an effect 25 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. In other words, when we waste half of our food that has a disastrous impact on the world climate.
Production Company
Schnittstelle/ Thurn Film bR
Marsiliusstr.
36 50937 Koeln, Germany
+49-221-942025-25
2011, Germany, 88 min.
Prod.: Astrid Vandekerkhove
Script / Dir.: Valentin Thurn
Dir. of Phot.: Roland Breitschuh
Music: Pluramon
Edit.: Birgit Koster
Valentin Thurn
Director and author of TV documentaries with the national German channels ARD and ZDF, the French-German channel Arte, the international channels Deutsche Welle TV and Transtel, the regional channels SWR, WDR, NDR, BR, ORB and HR and the Swiss Television DRS. In 2003, he founded the film production company Thurn Film, based in Cologne / Germany. Author of radio features and articles for magazines such as Die Woche, Die Zeit, Natur & Kosmos, Merian. Published the books on desertification, on environment in Eastern Europe and the Directory of Environmental NGO's in Central and Eastern Europe. Teaching at international congresses and workshops.
Filmography
Poor Children in Rich Europe (2006), My Baby in Your Belly - The Shady Surrogate-Business (2006), I Am Al Qaeda – The Life of Zacarias Moussaoui (2006), Violence in Prison – Youngsters behind Bars (2007), Not with My Daughter! (2007), The Pros and Cons of Vaccination (2007), Sperm Donor Unknown (2008), Food for Thought (2008), Battling the Superbugs (2008), A Guide for Life (2009), Innocent behind Bars (2009), The Whistleblower (2010), Taste the Waste (2011).