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South Bronx Teens Make Bodegas Documentary

09/03/2011 16:15:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 2,167 times.
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Bodega Down Bronx documentary.

Here is a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there.

Through a partnership with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a group of South Bronx students from New Settlement's Bronx Helpers made Bodega Down Bronx, an exploration of their neighborhood's bodegas and where the food on the shelves comes from.

Bodega owners, chip suppliers, delivery drivers, the executive director of the Hunts Point Terminal Market, and policy makers alike are interviewed, resulting in a nuanced portrait of the way food shapes a neighborhood and vice versa.

The documentary vollows:

To learn more about CUP’s programs or  to get involved, please visit here. To buy a DVD of Bodega Down Bronx (with super-cute packaging!), please click here.

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is a scientist with interests in everyday aspects of energy, cars, light-bulbs and other consumer products, and the broad intersection of science and engineering with our lives. Dr. Peters, a native of the rural Northwest, was educated in geology at Princeton and Harvard. Follow her on the pages of Bronx.com, on the web, and on Twitter @RockDocWSU. Her columns are a service of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.