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Media That Matters: Good Food

7:50 min
Documentary
Director: Allan and Stefan Forbes
Producer: Allan and Stefan Forbes

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Stefan Forbes, Director and Producer

Stefan Forbes has written and directed many awareness campaigns through his socially conscious production company InterPositive Media. He recently created a series of PSA’s for the Food Bank of NYC with Charlize Theron, Mike Myers, and The Edge, and he has directed Susan Sarandon, Rosie Perez, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles, and Matthew Broderick for groups such as The United Way. He has produced, shot and directed many music videos for bands such as Aaron Carter, Smilez & Southstar, and George Clinton w/ the P-Funk All-Stars. Currently Mr. Forbes is directing an unscripted show for A&E featuring celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, and is directing a feature-length political documentary in association with producers Noland Walker and Alex Gibney.

Allan Forbes, Jr., Director and Producer

Allan Forbes, Jr. (1919-2006) was an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker, and former Guggenheim fellow who directed and shot documentaries in Europe and America for companies such as the BBC. He wrote numerous articles and papers for such journals as World Archaelogy, Plains Anthropologist, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, and The Boston Review. His films include La Carera Oficial (1955), about Holy Week in Seville, No Governors (1958), about street musicians in London, March to Aldermaston (1955), about a famous peace march in England, The Anonymous (1958), about street children in Naples, and The Lands of our Ancestors (1967), about a Seneca reservation in upstate New York dislocated by a US Army Corps of Engineers dam.