An Introduction to SFA Films from Southern Foodways on Vimeo.
Joe York, who has created numerous films with the Southern Foodways Alliance, will be on hand at Zingerman’s Camp Bacon on June 19 to shoot some footage of the festivities as he works on his latest documentary of American culinary traditions.
Joe has documented some of the most interesting traditional foodways, people and places around country and you can watch many of his films here. Here’s what Joe had to say about the project: “The SFA and the University of Mississippi Media & Documentary Projects has embarked on a year-long visual census of southern food. This year we’re hitting the road and heading to every southern state, documenting the foodways that, as much or more than anything else, define this diverse region. In the end, we’ll edit all it all together into a feature-length documentary we’re cleverly calling “Southern Food: The Movie”. But we understand that the South simply isn’t big enough or selfish enough to keep these dishes to itself. So while we’ll focus our lenses mainly here at home, we’re also headed north and west to see how southern food has left its mark on the rest of the nation. When we heard that a bunch of folks were getting together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for something called Camp Bacon, we knew there was no way we’d miss it. ”
We are so excited and honored to have him as part of this event!