Dive! (film)

Dive! is an American documentary film directed by Jeremy Seifert.

This article is about the 2010 American documentary. For the 2008 Japanese film, see Dive!!
Dive!
Directed byJeremy Seifert
Produced byJeremy Seifert
Music byTimothy Vatterott
CinematographyJeremy Seifert
Edited byJeremy Seifert
Release date
  • February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05) (Oxford)
Running time
42 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Premise

The film follows director Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive behind several grocery stores in the Los Angeles area to demonstrate the massive amount of food that is wasted each year in America. After showing that much of the food found in dumpsters is perfectly edible, Seifert confronts the managers of the stores to question why they don't donate more of it to local food banks, especially in light of the 1996 Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which protects them from liability for such donations. The legality and ethics of dumpster diving are discussed when the stores begin locking up their dumpsters. Finally, Seifert considers the waste created by individual consumers when they throw out food that is only partly bad or just past its expiration date.

Release

Dive! premiered in October 2009 at the Gig Harbor Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award. It has gone on to win awards at many other film festivals, including Best Documentary at the DC Independent Film Festival and Best Film at the Dutch Environmental Film Festival.

gollark: Some apioapeiroforms even derive satisfaction from being "not a computer person".
gollark: Normal people are in fact uncool and cannot read lisp, as they just dismiss it as incomprehensible eldritch symbols.
gollark: It's a mathematical thingy to make a polynomial going through some points, so you can use it to approximate functions. I put in the first 8 factorials.
gollark: That looks like output from my lagrange interpolator thing.
gollark: Wait, oops, got to phase shift it.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.