HDFEST tickets

HDFEST Los Angeles

Tickets are $10 per screening and available for purchase online though the below links, or at the festival box office. Advance purchase is highly recommended. All festival screenings will take place in HD resolution and all films were created using HD technology.

Feature Documentary

Food Fight (screening with What I See When I Close My Eyes)

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Directed and Produced by Chris Taylor

Exec Produced by Alan Siegel, DP Pete Fuszard, Co-Producer Miranda Yousef

When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy, sustainably-produced food.

Fortunately for America, an alternative emerged from the counter-culture of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where a group of political anti-corporate protesters--led by Alice Waters--voiced their dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional system. The unintended result was the birth of a vital local-sustainable-organic food movement which has brought back taste and variety to our tables.

FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.

DVC PRO HD, 83 minutes


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Director Biography


Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor received a B.A. Cum Laude from Harvard University in Folklore and Mythology with special emphasis in the structure of popular culture and film theory.


From 1975 through 1986, Christopher worked as a touring lighting designer and production manager for musical groups such as the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Earth, Wind & Fire, John Fogarty, ELO, and Simon and Garfunkel.


After attending the American Film Institute in 1988, Christopher began his career as a Director-Director of Photography by interning with Sidney Poitier. In the 1990’s, Christopher worked as a DP with such talented filmmakers as Gary Oldman, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Michael Lehmann, and others. During this time he photographed six features, six MOW's, short films, TV pilots, and episodic television.


Beginning in 1998, Christopher began working full time as a Director, first for the Fox Network, where he directed 26 episodes of the series Beyond Belief, and most recently for CBS where he has directed 8 episodes of The District over the past 3 seasons, ending in 2004.


In 2005, Christopher formed Positively 25th Street, a production company dedicated to creating original documentary programming with social, political, and cultural significance.