Still from Food Coop
 

Food Coop

by Tom Boothe
Product Availability
Institutional, Home-Use, Community Screenings, Theatrical, Educational, Festivals, VOD
About the Film

In the middle of an economic crisis, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. Founded in 1973, the Park Slope Food Coop is a cooperative supermarket where all 16,000 members work 3 hours per month to earn the right to buy the best food in Brooklyn at incredibly low prices. With a healthy dose of insight and wit, FOOD COOP takes the viewer into the belly of one of the most successfully implemented socialist experiences in the United States.

Working against everything that defines the capitalistic indulgence of the “American Way of Life,” this resilient coop has curiously inspired as much hatred as enthusiasm. FOOD COOP relates how Park Slope Food Coop has come to life over the decades, and how this institution’s mode of participation teaches democracy and demonstrates a tangible example of social change.

Distribution Availability: Canada
2016  ·  1h37m  ·  France
English
French subs
Screenings
June 22, 2023
Karma Coop x Patagonia (Toronto, ON)
April 16, 2023
Beetbox Farm Coop (Nepean, ON)
March 5, 2019
The Post at 750 (Vancouver, BC)
March 2, 2019
Belleville Downtown Docfest (Belleville, ON)
February 26, 2019
Simon Fraser University - Faculty of Environment (Vancouver, BC)
February 14, 2019
Fiducie du Mont Pinacle (Frelishburg, QC)
September 12, 2018
On sème, Le Virage campus MIL (Montreal, QC)
January 25, 2018
Red Deer Justice Film Festival (Red Deer, AB)
November 18, 2017
Marda Loop Justice Film Festival (Calgary, AB)
November 14, 2017
Hosted by Transition NDG, Coop la Maison Verte (Montreal, QC)
November 3, 2017
Deconstructing Dinner Film Fest (Nelson, BC)
October 21, 2017
Planet in Focus Film Festival, Fest Forum Hub (Toronto, ON)
September 29, 2017
Soul of the Next Economy Forum, in partnership with the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival (Calgary, AB)
September 26, 2017
Ciné-Campus de l'Université de Montréal (Montreal, QC)
August 21, 2017
Cinéma sous les étoiles by Funambules Médias (Montreal, QC)
July 25, 2017
Cinéma sous les étoiles by Funambules Médias (Montreal, QC)
July 24, 2017
Cinéma urbain à la belle étoile à la place de la Paix by the Société des arts technologiques (Montreal, QC)
June 30, 2017
Corporation de développement communautaire (CDC) Centre-Sud and Marché Solidaire Frontenac (Montreal, QC)
June 15, 2017
Presented by Fondation David Suzuki, Maison du développement durable (Montreal, QC)
April 30, 2017
La Gare (Montreal, QC)
April 20, 2017
Monad (Montreal, QC)
February 6, 2017
Cinema Politica Concordia (Montreal, QC)
Credits
Editor
Hélène Attali
Cinematographer
Gregory Harriot
Sound Editor
Adam Wolny
Soundtrack Recorder
Laura Cunningham
About the Director

Tom Boothe

Tom Boothe is an American director based in Paris since 2002. Has worked as a wine buyer, sommelier, winery lab technician and wine educator, and is the cofounder of Coopérative La Louve, a coop food market that opened in 2017 in Paris.

(Image courtesy of the French Ministry of Agriculture.)

 

 

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