An award-winning filmmaker, Robert Lee Grant came to an SFSDF 5-Week Filmmaking Workshop about 4 years ago with an idea for a film – but no idea of how to make it a reality. Now, here we are in 2010 and his film is not only completed but is winning awards on the festival circuit.

His film “Nourishing The Kids Of Katrina – The Edible Schoolyard” just won an “Award of Excellence” at The Accolade Competition Film Festival in La Jolla, California.Other festival invites include the Texas Black Film Festival, the Sonoma Environmental Film Festival, and the da Vinci Film Festival in Corvallis, OR.

About the film:

Come experience this compelling 31 minute documentary film as it follows the story of how renowned chef Alice Waters’ Berkeley “Edible Schoolyard” program – centered around the caring for children – is replicated and contributes to the rebirth of the New Orleans uptown poor black Green Charter School after its devastation from Hurricane Katrina floodwaters.

The story is told from the unique perspective of filmmaker/producer, Robert Lee Grant, who is from the San Francisco Bay Area, but who experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand while living in NOLA for four years.

Robert had only a few words for other hopeful filmmakers out there –

Love it or don’t do it.