Food on Film: Community-led filmmaking on Bradford food sustainability

A community farm with raised beds for planting. The man and children in the image are looking at one of the beds.

How can we talk about food, health, and sustainability in a meaningful way? What tools do we need and who needs to be part of these conversations? This project, led by Rory Padfield (Earth and Environment) and in collaboration with Alexandra Dales (York St John University) aims to answer these questions as part of a pilot study in partnership with Bradford Council. They are collaborating with a community-run urban farm called Horton Community Farm and Inn Churches, who run a social supermarket called Food Savers.

The image depicts shelves of food and other items in a community social food hub. In the right of the picture are two women in conversation, one is talking on a mobile phone.

The project will lead to two-three co-created community-led films on food sustainability in Bradford, using the Critical Sustainability Stories (CRiSS) Tool, developed as part of an earlier AHRC funded project.

The project will include working with Bradford community groups, training on participatory filmmaking and training on how to use the CRiSS tool to enable effective storytelling on food sustainability issues.