First We Eat
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| Directed by | Suzanne Crocker |
| Written by | Suzanne Crocker |
| Produced by | Suzanne Crocker |
| Cinematography | Suzanne Crocker |
| Edited by | Michael Brockington Caroline Christie Astrid Schau-Larsen |
| Music by | Corb Lund Alex Houghton Jesse Cooke Marieke Hiensch Andrew Laviolette |
Production company | Drift Productions |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
First We Eat is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Suzanne Crocker and released in 2020. The film documents the attempts of Crocker and her family, after a landslide temporarily blocked highway access to their hometown of Dawson City, Yukon, to spend a full year exclusively consuming food that had been hunted, fished, gathered, grown or raised locally, while carefully considering the environmental and social impacts of modern commercial transport of food. The documentary film premiered on May 28, 2020 on Hot Docs.