Tuesday, June 18, 2013

11 YR. OLD EXPOSES SCHOOL LUNCHES

 

 

 

11-Year-Old Zachary Maxwell's Hidden Camera Documentary Exposes School Lunch

 

(ABC NEWS)

"It's the documentary that audiences and film critics are eating up.

In a covert six-month mission to expose the inside world of school lunches, 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell made "Yuck: A 4th Grader's Documentary About School Lunch" when he was a fourth-grader at a New York City public school.

Armed with hidden cameras, the precocious filmmaker went undercover to document dozens of lunches he was served at school.

During Zachary's investigation, he compared descriptions of lunch items on the school-provided menu with secretly recorded video of what he was actually being served."It sounded like it was coming from the finest restaurant, but what we were actually getting served, it wasn't too good," Zachary told ABC News. 

His 19-minute movie has already been featured at film festivals this year, and will be shown in the Manhattan Film Festival June 21, something the now fifth-grader is quite proud of..." (read more online & see documentary)

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Apparently we have a mini Morgan Spurlock in our mist. RIGHT ON!


 

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