Global-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés and his nonprofit Global Central Kitchen (WCK) are the themes of a brand new documentary premiering at South through Southwest subsequent month. We Feed Folks will make its international premiere on March 19.
The documentary will duvet the previous ten years of WCK. The group’s venture is to feed folks in want after herbal and social failures world wide, akin to hurricanes in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, and the Carolinas; earthquakes in Haiti, Mexico, and Indonesia; the Nashville tornados, quarantined cruise passengers, well being care employees within the face of COVID-19, D.C. law enforcement officials all over the January 6, 2021 siege, and lots of others. In Texas, the group aided all over Typhoon Harvey, the Texas iciness hurricane of 2021, and the migrant scenario in Del Rio. Andrés based WCK in 2010 after a large earthquake hit Haiti.
We Feed Folks was once directed through Ron Howard, recognized for motion pictures akin to A Gorgeous Thoughts, and documentaries akin to The Beatles: 8 Days a Week and Rebuilding Paradise, concerning the 2018 California wildfires. He additionally produced a Julia Kid documentary (during which Andrés makes an look), which was once launched final 12 months
After being canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic and working nearly in 2021, this 12 months’s SXSW is a hybrid in-person and digital tournament. The documentary’s in-person screening is being held on the Paramount on Saturday, March 19 at 3:30 p.m., after which it’s going to be to be had nearly beginning on Sunday, March 20 at 9 a.m.
