''First We Eat'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by

Suzanne Crocker Suzanne Crocker is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Dawson City, Yukon. She is most noted for her films '' All the Time in the World'' (2014), which won the award for Most Popular Canadian Documentary at the 2014 Vancouver International Film F ...

and released in 2020. The film documents the attempts of Crocker and her family, after a

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temporarily blocked highway access to their hometown of

Dawson City Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest town in Yuko ...

Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

, to spend a full year exclusively consuming food that had been hunted, fished, gathered, grown or raised locally, while carefully considering the environmental and social impacts of modern commercial transport of food. The documentary film premiered on May 28, 2020 on

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Production

Crocker first announced the project in 2017. The film's production website also incorporates an ongoing collaborative project on

food security Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World F ...

, including guides to

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for edible wild plants, a seed guide to fruits and vegetables that grow well in Yukon, and a recipe guide to dishes that can be cooked with local ingredients available in the Dawson City area.

Release

The film premiered as part of the 2020

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. Due to the

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it was not screened theatrically, but premiered as part of the festival's online streaming component. It was named one of five winners of the festival's Rogers Audience Award, alongside the films ''

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References

External links

* *{{official, https://firstweeat.ca/ 2020 films 2020 documentary films Canadian documentary films Films shot in Yukon Documentary films about food and drink 2020s English-language films 2020s Canadian films