Silent Killer Film - The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger

Silent Killer - The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger

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Pat Mallinson
KCTS/Seattle Public Television
206.443.6798

pmallinson@kcts.org

PRESS RELEASE

August 24, 2005

NEW FILM ABOUT WORLD HUNGER
OFFERS COMPELLING EXAMINATION OF BOTH THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS

SILENT KILLER: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
is narrated by NPR’s Scott Simon

SEATTLE – There are a billion hungry people in the world. Fifteen thousand children—the equivalent of five times the victims of the World Trade Center bombings—die each day of hunger. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. We can end hunger—if we make a commitment to doing so. The new one-hour documentary SILENT KILLER: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger shows how it can be done. Shot on location in South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, Brazil, the United States and Rome, SILENT KILLER examines both the problem of hunger and solutions. The documentary and its companion Web Site (www.SilentKillerFilm.org) will provide viewers with inspiration and information to become part of the effort to end hunger.

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SILENT KILLER: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger is produced by Hana Jindrova and John de Graaf in association with KCTS/Seattle Public Television and narrated by NPR's Scott Simon. The program is presented by KCTS Television. Writer: John de Graaf. Photographers/Editors: Diana Wilmar and David Fox. Composer: Michael Bade. Executive Producer: Enrique Cerna, KCTS.

Funding for SILENT KILLER: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger was provided by The Rockefeller Foundation.

EXPERTS - Featured in SILENT KILLER film and available for press interviews

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

CHRIS BARRETT - development economist, Cornell University. Dr. Barrett is a professor of applied economics and management at Cornell University. His focus is on rural communities, primarily in Africa, concentrating on the dynamics of poverty, food security, and hunger.
607.255.4489
Cbb2@cornell.edu

DAVID BECKMANN - president, Bread for the World. Since 1991, Reverend Beckmann has served as president of Bread for the World, a Christian group that lobbies the U.S. government for policy changes to end hunger in the United States and around the world.
202.639.9400
dbeckmann@bread.org

WALTER FALCON - development economist, Stanford University. Dr. Falcon is the Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy at Stanford University (emeritus), co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy, and former director of the Stanford Institute for International Studies.
650.723.6367
wpfalcon@stanford.edu

HANS HERREN - World Food Prize Laureate 1995, president of the Millennium Institute; Arlington, VA; Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences; co-chair of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development.
703.841.0048
hherren@threshold21.com

PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN - World Food Prize Laureate 2001. A native of Denmark, Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy at Cornell University. He also serves as the chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
607.255.9429
pp94@cornell.edu