Food Film Showcase
The Cabrillo College Horticulture Department is proud to announce the 2025 Food Film Showcase, a monthly film screening series that explores crucial themes of black equity, sustainability, Indigenous food sovereignty, permaculture, and community life. This exciting new initiative, created by Melissa Schilling of the Horticulture Department and Climate Justice Club, will run on the last Tuesday of each month, from January through April, and is brought to you by the HORT 160B Edible Landscaping Class in Spring 2025.
Each month, the Food Film Showcase will partner with a community group to create a richer, more diverse experience, including the Umoja Club, the Watsonville Film Festival, indigenous Chef Christina Lonewolf (Esselen, Big Sur Food Festival), and the Cabrillo College Horticulture Department.
Meet Chef LonewolF
Christina Lonewolf Martinez is a private chef in the Monterey Bay Area with a passion for raising awareness about Indigenous foods and culinary traditions. Born and raised in Monterey County, she finds inspiration in the bounty of land and sea that has sustained Indigenous communities across the Central Coast for thousands of years. Her family’s roots in agriculture instilled a respect for stewardship of the land, and an apprenticeship at Big Sur’s famed Post Ranch Inn in 2015 introduced her to the breadth of local, foraged foods. With ancestral roots to the Comanche, Yaqui, Apache, and Shoshone tribes, she hopes her cooking can help preserve Native American traditions and cultivate community.
She previously worked as a chef at Stokes Adobe and Cella Restaurant + Bar in Monterey, California, and served as the executive chef for the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County’s Harvest Festival in 2022 and 2023. She has contributed recipes to a forthcoming cookbook from the Buffalo Tribal Council of South Dakota celebrating Indigenous cuisines that will be published in 2025.
Current Film Line Up
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