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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the documentary Food and Country, a collaboration between acclaimed bestselling author Ruth Reichl and award-winning director Laura Gabbert. Watch the exclusive trailer below.

The film, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, will open in theaters at the IFC Center in New York on October 2. Reichl, a chef and restaurant critic whose books include Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise and Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, executive produced the documentary with Gabbert, Caroline Libresco, Paula Perez Manzanedo and Lisa Remington. Gabbert’s directorial credits include City of Gold , about the late food writer Jonathan Gold, and Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles , about chef-restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi.

“During the pandemic, Reichl became concerned with the plight of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs grappling with both the immediate and systemic challenges of a broken food system,” a description of the film reads. “Breaking geographic and cultural boundaries, she follows the unfolding stories of ranchers in Kansas and Georgia, farmers in Nebraska, Ohio, and the Bronx, a New England fisherman, and maverick chefs in big cities, all fighting in different ways to survive in an increasingly consolidated food industry subsidized by long-term government policies. As Reichl watches them navigate these difficult circumstances, she shares pieces of her own life and begins to take stock of the path she’s traveled and the youthful ideals she fears she’s left behind. As each character’s story comes into focus, it becomes clear that the way we make and grow our food tells who we are as a country.”