GMO OMG Documentary Premieres in Atlanta

ATLANTA - Jan. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- Jeremy Seifert’s new documentary GMO OMG, the entertaining yet hard-hitting investigation of how laboratory-assisted genetic modification of food affects the world around us, will premiere in Atlanta on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at the Plaza Theatre.  GMO OMG is Seifert’s follow up to DIVE! Living Off America’s Waste.  The film screening is sponsored by the Atlanta Film Festival, Picture Window Productions, Miller Union, Slow Food Atlanta, Chipotle and Avalon Catering.  A panel discussion and Q&A featuring filmmaker Jeremy Seifert will take place following the screening.  Moderated by Kim Severson, Atlanta Bureau Chief, New York Times, panel members include Alice Rolls of Georgia Organics, Steven Satterfield, Executive Chef/Owner, Miller Union and Rashid Nuri, founder and CEO of Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture.

GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system, and takes a critical look at the corporations who control what we eat. GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his family’s table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of agra-giant Monsanto, from which he is unceremoniously ejected. Along the way we gain insight into a question that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what's on your plate?

"This film has been a long and incredible journey,” says filmmaker Seifert.  “I hope the film will inspire people to take back our food from giant corporations, invest in small farms, good seed and soil, and local communities. If nothing else motivates us to change for the better, maybe our children will. Mine sure did, and that's ultimately why I made this film."

GMO OMG had its world premiere at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.  Screen Daily called the film “powerfully provocative” and “a subject that needs to be focused on.”   And Grist says, “Director Jeremy Seifert accomplishes something remarkable when he turns his camera on his family, it's refreshing to see a work that gives emotion its due.”

Tickets to the Atlanta screening are $6.00 per person and can be purchased via: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/gmo-omg-tickets-10180856215?aff=eorg.

For more information about the film, visit: http://www.gmofilm.com.

GMO OMG was produced by Josh Kunau and executive produced by Elizabeth Kucinich, Jill Latiano Howerton, and Josh Kunau. Cinematography by Rod Hassler, sound by Daniel S. McCoy, edited by Jeremy Seifert and Terry Yates.

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Submarine Entertainment, founded and run by twin brothers Josh and Dan Braun, is a hybrid sales and production company, consulting and strategizing on the sale and distribution of feature films and documentaries and producing unique and high quality feature films, documentaries and television properties. Submarine Deluxe is the company’s distribution label, which releases features films and documentaries including Being Elmo, Love Marilyn and the Academy Award nominated Chasing Ice.