Food Sovereignty

While conversations about the ocean as a source of food tend to focus on security, these films shift our lens to sovereignty and self-determination. They situate marine plants and animals in cultural, spiritual, political, and economic worlds - inextricably embedded in people’s relationships with Land and with each other. In this context, they raise critical questions around access and regulation. Who has the power to regulate people’s relations with culturally significant sources of food? Who has access to certain kinds of fishing and hunting practices? And what happens when changes like rising sea temperatures and overfishing start to deplete fish and marine mammal populations? The films in this section take up these questions in ways that go beyond subsistence and assert food sovereignty as a non-negotiable aspect of ocean justice.