Gather: The Documentary Screening

Join us at Lake Theater & Cafe for a viewing of Gather: The Documentary. This event is free and open to the public. Food and beverages are available for purchase at the cafe.
Lake Theater & Cafe, 106 South State Street, Lake Oswego, OR 97034

Gather: The Documentary

Gather has been made in partnership with the First Nations Development Institute, a leading Native nonprofit based in Colorado.

First Nations Development Institute recognizes that accessing healthy food is a challenge for many Native American children and families. Without access to healthy food, a nutritious diet and good health are out of reach. To increase access to healthy food, we support tribes and Native communities as they build sustainable food systems that improve health, strengthen food security and increase the control over Native agriculture and food systems. First Nations provides this assistance in the form of financial and technical support, including training materials, to projects that address agriculture and food sectors in Native communities.

Sanjay Rawal
Director

A James Beard Award winning filmmaker, Sanjay made FOOD CHAINS (EP Eva Longoria, Eric Schlosser) which chronicled the battle of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a small group of Oaxacan and Chiapan indigenous farmworkers in Florida, against the largest agribusiness conglomerates in the world. The film was released theatrically in a number of countries (Screen Media in the US) and won numerous awards - including citations from the US Conference of Mayors, the Clinton Global Initiative and the White House. The film was also a Winner (shared) of the 2016 BritDoc Impact award and several festival prizes.

Sanjay’s last film 3100: RUN AND BECOME won several festival prizes, had a robust theatrical release in the US in 2018 and is opening in traditional theatrical engagements across Europe and Australia in 2020 and 2021.

Tanya Mellier
Producer

Tanya’s documentary feature ALIAS RUBY BLADE premiered at IDFA and played over 40 film festivals. It was purchased by Netflix, distributed theatrically in Australia and won shared the 2014 Cinema for Peace award with the narrative 12 Years a Slave. Tanya also produced the award-winning film 3100: RUN AND BECOME.