AT THE FORK
A Webisode Series
Directed by Richard James Allen
Written & Produced by Josef Brown
Featuring
Tony Cogin . Katrina Retallick . Samuel Lucus Allen . Jadzea Allen
Filming was funded by a 2011 grant from VOICELESS - the animal protection institute
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Watch all seven episodes HERE
AT THE FORK
Synopses
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AT THE FORK explores the shifting landscape in our relationship to food, through the prism of a suburban Australian family coming to better understand the impact their choices make at the dinner table.
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A light-hearted exploration of a serious topic, AT THE FORK considers many of the issues surrounding our current relationship with ‘food’. When two bright teenagers begin to question what they eat, their whole family is forced to re-examine some long held assumptions about the choices they make each week at the supermarket. A seven-part drama miniseries, it reaches out to audiences, young and old, offering them thoughts seeds to carry, consider and raise around their family dinner tables.
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AT THE FORK brings a fresh and compelling storytelling approach to questions of the impact our food choices make on our health, environment and our relationship to non-human animals. Told over seven short episodes, AT THE FORK follows a family as they come to engage with many unquestioned assumptions about what they eat.Featuring acclaimed Australian actors, Tony Cogin and Katrina Retallick and introducing Samuel Lucus Allen and Jadzea Allen, the drama of AT THE FORK is driven by two tech-savvy teenagers learning about the plight of industrially farmed animals.
Directed by Richard James Allen, written and produced by Josef Brown, and with a voice over by Tara Morice, the project is accessible, entertaining, with a broad appeal to mainstream viewers, in particular younger generations: offering them thought seeds to carry, consider and raise around their own family dinner tables.
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AT THE FORK is a seven part short-form miniseries, starring acclaimed Australian actors Tony Cogin and Katrina Retallick and introducing Samuel Lucas Allen and Jadzea Allen. It features a voice over narration by Tara Morice.
The series follows the journey of two bright teenagers approaching a watershed moment in their lives. As our young protagonists learn about the plight of industrially farmed animals, they discover the benefits that a vegetarian diet can make on their health and the health of our planet.
But this new information puts them at odds with their parents, entrenched in their ‘normal‘, even clichéd Australian eating habits. What unfolds is a family drama, as a shifting paradigm meets one reluctant to budge, as they all slowly come to ask, ‘isn’t it funny what we think of as normal?’
Written and produced by Josef Brown, long time animal rights advocate and vegetarian, Josef has spent a career as an internationally renowned professional actor and dancer. For this project he has teamed with fellow vegetarian and celebrated filmmaker Richard James Allen, founder of The Physical TV Company.
Embracing a gentle storytelling approach, AT THE FORK presents the important arguments surrounding the issues of meat eating in a more family friendly format, while remaining true to the integrity of the topic at hand.
The series continues the profound shift of vegetarianism from the fringe and into the suburban home, planting thought seeds for our younger generations to carry, consider and raise as conversation around their family dinner tables.
AT THE FORK
Credits
This series was made possible thanks to a generous grant from
VOICELESS - the animal protection institute*
Cast
Tony Cogin - DAD
Katrina Retallick - MUM
Samuel Lucus Allen - SON
Jadzea Allen - DAUGHTER
Basienka Blake - NADIA (waitress)
Bailey - Bailey (the dog)
Thug in park - jboy
Special thanks to
Voice Over - Tara Morice
Crew
Director
Richard James Allen
Writer
Josef Brown
Producer
Josef Brown
Executive Producers
Richard James Allen
Karen Pearlman
Katherine Griffiths-Brown
Director of Photography
Michi Marosszeky
Sound Recordist
Rafal Dabrowski
Editor
Karen Pearlman
Assistant Editor
Tanvi Mehta
Composer
Paul Barsom, “Abadja Lutes”
Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer
William Lawlor
Post Production Facility
FSM
Post Production Co-Ordinator
Martin Thorne
Online Editor
Rodney Meier
Colour Grader
Heather Hay
[Episode 3 only:
Compositor
Mike Gibson]
Production Assistants
Nicola Bartos
Madeline Beukers
Melissa Hang Le
Matilda Hartwig
Maree Kanowski
Eleanor Stancombe
Luke Symes
Chantal Walsh
Stills Photography
Melissa Hang Le
Josef Brown
Special Thanks
The Physical TV Company
Ron Brown
Carol Brown
Helen Griffiths
Hannah Griffiths
Amy Griffiths
Michelle Griffiths
Mark Griffiths
Emma Flowers
H20 Cafe, Narrabeen
The ducks of Narrabeen Lagoon
Page Henty
Grantly Brown
Loren Lembke
Thomas Dux, Mona Vale
Bounty Burgers courtesy of
Conscious Cuisine
Copyright © MMXIII Josef Brown.
* While Voiceless has provided financial assistance in connection with this Project, it does not necessarily endorse the views expressed nor does it guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the material provided.
For more information: please contact Josef Brown
josef@josefbrown.com.au
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