Will Allen in Fresh

  • Will Allen in “Fresh”

Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen, Virginia sustainable farmer Joel Salatin, and In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan are among those challenging the industrialization of American agriculture and its resultant “food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity” in ana Sofie joanes’s documentary Fresh.

It opens a weeklong run Friday at 8:45 p.m. the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. Board members of Evanston/Skokie-based Talking Farm hold a Q&A after the Saturday 5:45 p.m. screening.