The people behind the food
Food doesn’t begin in the kitchen.
It begins with the people we never meet, and the land they refuse to give up on. A cinematic documentary project about the Food Heroes from Costa Blanca and beyond.
Somewhere between the soil and the plate, we forgot the people and the roots behind it. We care about what we eat, but we almost never ask: who makes this possible?
But some people never forgot. A beekeeper in the hills above the sea who reads the health of wildflowers by tasting his honey. A farmer growing rice varieties the rest of the world abandoned decades ago. A baker who built a stone oven, because he wanted bread to taste like memory.
Almost nobody is telling their stories, but we will.
Understanding where our food comes from is fundamental. Farmers, foragers, fishers are the real heroes, yet almost nobody celebrates them or talks about what they are doing, or why they do it. That is why we created our project: to give them their voice and bring them on stage.
The journey of food
The Soil
The Seeds
The Makers
The Fire
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Season · Costa Blanca
Season One · Costa Blanca, Spain
Episodes
Rice farmers
Paula & Vicent Dominguis
Brother and sister restoring the Bombón rice variety, missing from cultivation for over 50 years.
Beekeeper & apitourism pioneer
Eduardo Fernández
His bees work the slopes of Montgó Natural Park; his honey is a reading of the landscape.
Citrus biodiversity custodian
Vicente Todolí
Former director of Tate Modern, now caretaker of the world's most significant private citrus collection.
Olive oil maker
Miguel Ángel García González
Left graphic arts to return to his family's mountain groves and rebuild them through regenerative dryland farming.
Chef-farmer
Pep Romany
Brings heritage cocas with local toppings to high cuisine as a manifesto.
Natural winemaker
Felipe Gutiérrez
Spanish Navy commander turned winemaker. First in Spain to vinify Moscatel dry.
Regenerative farmer
Antonio Hedilla
A Madrid lawyer who returned to his grandmother's abandoned orange grove in Dénia and rebuilt it as a regenerative farm.
Artisan cheesemakers
Lili & Julio
Handcrafted cheese in a limestone valley where goat farming has barely changed in centuries.
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episodes
Cinema, and the knowledge behind it.
At the heart of the project is a documentary series with cinematic language. No narrator. No host. Only Food Heroes telling their own stories, in their own language. Around the films grows an educational platform: photo reportages, in-depth articles and learning materials on regenerative agriculture, seed heritage, traditional crafts and the chefs who connect them to our tables.
About the project- 01.Voices, not narration
- 02.Cinema in every frame
- 03.Heritage worth preserving
- 04.Knowledge that travels
Roots & regeneration
Seeds of memory
Hands that remember
Where fire meets table
The structure of the project
Four Pillars
Every story we film belongs to one of four pillars — following the journey of food itself: from the ground, through the seed and the maker’s hands, to the fire of the kitchen.
Explore the Four PillarsSeason one · Costa Blanca, Spain
The Food Heroes
Twelve stories of soil, seeds, hands and fire, filmed across one full season of their lives.
Coming soonPego MarshesThe Seeds
Paula & Vicent Dominguis
Rice farmers
Coming soonMontgó Natural ParkThe Makers
Eduardo Fernández
Beekeeper & apitourism pioneer
Coming soonMarina AltaThe Seeds
Vicente Todolí
Citrus biodiversity custodian
Coming soonMarina Alta mountainsThe Soil
Miguel Ángel García González
Olive oil maker
Coming soonDéniaThe Fire
Pep Romany
Chef-farmer
Coming soonMarina AltaThe Makers
Felipe Gutiérrez
Natural winemaker
Ambassadors
Voices that stand with us.
Fatmata Binta
Chef & founder, Fulani Kitchen Foundation
Quote pending
At the heart of the project is a documentary series with cinematic language. No narrator. No host. Only Food Heroes telling their own stories, in their own language. Around the films grows an educational platform: photo reportages,
At the heart of the project is a documentary series with cinematic language. No narrator. No host. Only Food Heroes telling their own stories, in their own language. Around the films grows an educational platform: photo reportages,
Fatmata Binta
Chef & founder, Fulani Kitchen Foundation
Anna Pollock
Founder, Conscious Travel
Quote pending
At the heart of the project is a documentary series with cinematic language. No narrator. No host. Only Food Heroes telling their own stories, in their own language. Around the films grows an educational platform: photo reportages,
At the heart of the project is a documentary series with cinematic language. No narrator. No host. Only Food Heroes telling their own stories, in their own language. Around the films grows an educational platform: photo reportages,
Anna Pollock
Founder, Conscious Travel
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