THE RAW TRUTH MOVIE

In the running for the Arclight Cinemas Doc Film Fest

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:38:00 -0400

You Can Help The Raw Truth get to the Arclight Cinemas Documentary Film Festival by:
“liking” the trailer on YouTube by clicking on the thumbs up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Ne7bOKuQc&list=PLxlbvpDM9TmOwiYhhTLEmBz0xbfCuHLEX&index=18&feature=plpp_video
AND voting on their Facebook under “Short Documentaries” and “vote” by checking the box for The Raw Truth: https://www.facebook.com/ArclightCinemas/app_173990205980784

The Raw Truth made it into the top 20 trailers for the Arclight Cinema’s Documentary Film Festival and only the top 5 trailers from each category get screened at the Film Festival and compete for a chance to win $10,000.

Although it would be amazing to win the grand prize, I am grateful just to have another chance to be able to screen The Raw Truth on the big screen. There is something magical that happens when a packed house interacts with this comedic documentary about people having mouthgasms about vegetables.

Yes, a Top Chef Master (Ludo) waxes poetic about the integrity of a carrot.

Yes, a Raw Vegan re-enacts his forbidden love affair with a cooked pizza.

The Raw Truth will surely make you crack a smile, gasp in disbelief, and pinch the person next to you. Could you have this much fun watching a documentary? If you’ve seen The Raw Truth on the big screen before, you already know the answer to this question. YES!!!

So please take a moment and help us out by voting for The Raw Truth. They will be counting all the votes on YouTube and Facebook so please vote on both!

Contest ends Oct 14 so time is running out!

And Please help us spread the word - we definitely need all the help we can get.

Thank-you so much for helping us push The Raw Truth to the finals!

The Raw Truth Team.

Our FACEBOOK PAGE is live!

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:45:05 -0500

This is our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Raw-Truth/130937383629733

and our events page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172717506080508&num_event_invites=0

We are now in color correction. We mix on Dec 6th and 7th, and we screen on Dec 10!!! it’s a tight schedule but I hope you guys can join us!

Rawesome on Colbert

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:43:05 -0400

James Stewart and Lilo Buttery, two of our documentary’s subjects, are on colbertnation!

Check it out:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361307/october-06-2010/rawesome-foods-raid

pw is rawfood

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:16:17 -0400

pw is rawfood

End of Principal Photography

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:07:00 -0400

Alas… we are reaching the end of shooting! We’re taking a break this weekend but afterwards, we have to do pick ups.

I feel like we got so much and yet I feel like we know nothing. We are still searching for the right way to tell this story. We have more subjects than any of the other projects, we have a lot of complicated concepts and processes we have to explain in a simplistic manner, and we are trying to make this documentary look like a real movie with less talking heads.

Check out our trailer! Our editors, Billy Sullivan and Barbara Steele cut this together for us.

pw is rawfood

Adam and Eve Production Stills!

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:21:27 -0400

Adam and Eve Production Stills!

Adam and Eve

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:37:32 -0400

This weekend we are staging a scene for our documentary. Basically what that means is that we are going to film a narrative section to put into our documentary.

The scene is going to be an Adam and Eve scene, complete with leaves as bikinis, a fake snake, and last but not least, processed food. Yup! The forbidden fruit will not be an apple but a sausage!

Pics to come soon.

PREPARING FOR PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:25:13 -0400

I just sat down with my cinematographer, Luke Patton, at CRU, one of our favorite raw vegan/vegan restaurant. This weekend we will be going to the Taste of Beverly Hills, the Farmer’s Market at the Grove, and the LA Times Celebration of Food and Wine. We talked about the shots and the main point of each event. It’s always good to prepare in advance even if it doesn’t happen that way (as most documentary scenes change).

I had the Asian Noodle Bowl at Cru. I would have taken a pic of it, but I already have a number of pictures of it. You can check it out on my food blog. Yes, I have a food blog.

We will also be interviewing Rawsheed, famed raw chef and beloved mentor of the Raw Vegan lifestyle. You can more information about Rawsheed here and here.

I’m ecstatic about this weekend. We are hoping to visualize a space for the Raw Food movement in the LA food landscape and hoping to get some high profile chefs and local celebrities. Keep our fingers crossed!!!

-Jin (Director)

From our test weekend! We interviewed an ALL RAW family in...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:52:00 -0400

From our test weekend!

We interviewed an ALL RAW family in Cerritos, CA. The children were super cute and full of energy.

Raw Banana Ice Cream

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:32:52 -0400

When we visited Chef AJ over the summer, she made raw banana ice cream for us. I’m going to post a video of it up soon.

She got a frozen banana, put it through a juicer, and out came banana ice cream. She topped it with cacao nibs and Jess and I DEVOURED it.

I was completely taken aback at how easy and simple it was and it really was just two ingredients: banana & cacao nibs.

Amazing.

Chef AJ shows us an easy way to make banana ice cream…...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:22:00 -0400

Chef AJ shows us an easy way to make banana ice cream… that is, if you have a juicer.

Talya Meldy

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400

Talya Meldy:

Above a Link to the Website of Talya Meldy, www.clearwayhealth.com. Talya is one of our documentary Subjects and she will be demonstrating a Colonic on our film. She is very highly recommended, and we are very proud to have her on board. Many Raw Foodist receive regular colonics, and include it as a necessary part of the Raw Food lifestyle.

Marion Nestle's Take on Food and Nutrition in 2010

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:41:00 -0400

Marion Nestle's Take on Food and Nutrition in 2010:

(via consciouscrumbs)

Click the link to check out the entire blog entry. Pretty fascinating.

Got Raw Milk?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:40:32 -0400

Got Raw Milk?:

consciouscrumbs:

Looking for raw milk in Chicago? Time Out Magazine recently ran this article on local resources. Is raw milk better for you than pasteurized? The data isn’t clear. But when it comes to taste and cheesemaking, raw milk is the clear winner. Want to learn more? Check out Marion Nestle’s June 7 post at FoodPolitics.com.

Test Weekend

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:27:00 -0400

WAS RAWMAZING!!!!!!

We got some opening montage sequences throughout Los Angeles, visited the famous chef to the celebrities, RAWSHEED, and interviewed May and her lovely raw family.

Stay tuned for pictures!

"LET FOOD BY THY MEDICINE"

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:17:42 -0400

“LET FOOD BY THY MEDICINE”

- HIPPOCRATES

To be a Raw Foodist or Not to be

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:54:00 -0400

Bacon and brie pizza. Tacos al pastor. Father’s Office burger with grass fed beef and carmelized onions. Garlic fries. Sweet potato fries. Bacon wrapped hot dogs. Chicken and waffles. Tater tots. Rice and beans. Kimchi stew.

These are just a few of my favorite things in life that I’d have to give up on a raw food diet because they are considered “poisonous,” according to raw foodists.

What would you give up for optimum health? What if you thought it was the truth, the key to life? The diet we were supposed to be meant for?

Are we meant to be raw foodists or was the invention of fire the greatest discovery of mankind? Just like our appendix is completely useless now that we don’t eat bark or sand, is going raw going back to prehistoric days? Are we devolving or are we seeking enlightenment through our food?

This is the search for that truth