Zoë Marie Jimenez
2022 HEAR US Awardee
Undergraduate Film & TV Class of 2022
Zoë Marie Jimenez is an NYC based Black & Puerto Rican filmmaker. Mainly a director and producer, her focus is on documentary filmmaking with an anthropological focus and music video production. She worked as a Producer for the docuseries Good Jazz Back to You since 2019. In her Junior year at NYU Tisch, Zoë previously interned at Katch Media as a Media Genome Analyst and recently wrapped her internship at 1st Ave Machine in the Creative Development department.
Project
Everyone Eats
How can we honor the practices of indigenous foodways, “grandmother cuisine,” and food cooperatives to usher in freedom through food? In EVERYONE EATS, a short documentary, we’ll explore how New York City’s food activists are changing the culture of food in BIPOC communities.
The documentary addresses the issue of food apartheid and food injustices that are perpetuated by current food policy and decades of systematic racism that targets black and brown communities. Yet instead of taking purely an academic approach to addressing food apartheid, giving more attention to the oppressors, the intention is to uplift those affected by food apartheid who have taken matters into their own hands.
Centralized resources for food justice solutions are few and far between, EVERYONE EATS is a solution to that. A project that exhibits the widespread activity of the food sovereignty movement, not only gives the viewer a new resource for education about the subject but it can also plant a seed of inspiration in the youth who live in the places affected by food apartheid. As someone who comes from a Black American/Puerto Rican background I know firsthand what the community eats and how a new food culture can shift Black and Brown communities in a healthier direction. With my own sensitivity to food heritage, I hope I can listen to these inspirational figures and let their desires, needs, and capabilities be known.
