Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's Food, Inc. Opens 3rd Annual Culinary Cinema of the Berlin International Film Festival

SOLD OUT EVENT INCLUDED SCREENING, FOLLOWED BY PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING
MICHAEL POLLAN AND ERIC SCHLOSSER AND SPECIAL ORGANIC DISH PREPARED BY TOP CHEF
TIM RAUE
LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's documentary Food, Inc.,
directed by Robert Kenner, opened the 3rd annual Culinary Cinema of the Berlin
International Film Festival on Sunday, February 8.

At the sold-out event, the film was screened in the 1500-seat
Freidrichstadtpalast, followed by a tasty and informative panel discussion
featuring director Kenner, co-producer/author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation)
and author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore`s Dilemma) as well as actor/director
Gael Garcia Bernal, Carlo Petrini (the Italian founder of the Slow Food
movement), Renate Kunast (the former German Health Minister) Dr. Hans Theo
Jachmann (of agri-business Syngenta Ltd.), Dr. Heinrich Graf von Bassewitz (of
the German Farmers Associaton), moderated by Jörg Thadeusz. After the panel, all
the attendees were treated to a bowl of organic vegetable stew prepared by
Berlin`s top chef, Tim Raue, and inspired by the film.

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly
mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the
consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. We learn that our
nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often
put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the
safety of workers and our own environment.

According to Reuters, Kenner told the audience that he tried to get the
corporations--Monsanto, Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods-to present their side
of the story in Food, Inc. Kenner told the audience, "We reached out to the
companies. They seemed interested but in the end almost all said no, they didn't
want to be involved."

Reuters also reported that Schlosser said, "The film is ostensibly about food
but it's also about the concentrated power in the United States and the
corrupting effects of that power. But it's not only the United States. It's a
real threat to ordinary people when one company has so much control."

Magnolia Pictures will release Food, Inc. in the U.S. in June.

Participant Media is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company that focuses on
socially relevant, commercially viable feature films, documentaries and
television, as well as publishing and digital media. www.participantmedia.com

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