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UPDATED with streaming-broadcast news from original 6\/15\/2022 story: National Geographic Documentary Films today announced its Emmy-contending documentary We Feed People will stream on Hulu beginning Thursday, in addition to Disney+, where it has been streaming since late May. The Ron Howard-directed film about chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\u2019 humanitarian work also will receive a special screening this Friday on National Geographic Channel, at 9 pm ET. This is the first time a National Geographic bannered film has gone from Disney+ to Hulu and also to broadcast.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUSLY: Spanish native Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s became one of the most celebrated chefs in the world, popularizing tapas \u2013 small plate dining \u2013 in America. But of late he\u2019s been focusing on comfort food. Comfort food in the truest sense, the kind the nonprofit he founded, World Central Kitchen, makes for people in times of disaster.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood relief is not just a meal that keeps hunger away. It\u2019s a plate of hope,\u201d Andr\u00e9s declares on the WCK website. \u201cIt tells you in your darkest hour that someone, somewhere, cares about you. This is the real meaning of comfort food.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s\u2019 remarkable journey from high-profile chef to humanitarian on a global scale is told in the documentary We Feed People, directed by Oscar winner Ron Howard. The National Geographic film, now streaming on Disney+, is a contender for Emmy nominations in multiple categories.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been fascinating to help share this kind of origin story of World Central Kitchen and the way it began with his drive and a good idea and a good heart and his credit card,\u201d Howard tells Deadline. \u201cIt\u2019s evolved into something so extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea for the documentary sprang from Howard\u2019s earlier NatGeo film, Rebuilding Paradise, about the wildfire that destroyed the bucolic town of Paradise in Northeastern California in 2018. Andr\u00e9s and his World Central Kitchen team responded to that crisis, just as they did in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, Australia after brutal brushfires, in Beirut after a massive explosion, in South Africa after ruinous floods, in Tonga after the undersea volcanic eruption, and so many other catastrophic events.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at that footage,\u201d Howard recalls of working on the edit of Rebuilding Paradise. \u201cAnd I thought, there he was, there in Paradise, California as well. Incredible. It just made me want to go to the effort of reaching out and seeing if it was something that he was interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 that led to the creation of World Central Kitchen. As the film explores, Andr\u00e9s had been vacationing in the Caribbean when the disaster struck. He flew to Haiti right away and began to prepare meals for people left without food or shelter. In the process, he discovered an ostensibly simple truth: food is empathy. Making meals for neighbors in distress can have a profound effect.<\/p>\n
WCK always partners with people on the ground \u2013 those directly impacted by a disaster \u2013 instead of parachuting in with a \u201cWe\u2019re here to impose our ideas and save the day\u201d mentality. \u201cWe build resilient food systems with locally led solutions,\u201d the nonprofit\u2019s website notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen that we inspire others to do something,\u201d Andr\u00e9s tells Deadline. \u201cI have a feeling that\u2019s one of the things we do by going in quick, by going fast and telling everybody there is no time to complain, no time to feel sorry about you and your community, no time for any sorrow. It\u2019s time to start doing something about it\u2026 When you are able to make everybody believe that something can be done about their distress, about their mayhem, and they become part of the solution, this gives people a power that allows them to rebuild not just their homes or their businesses, but more important their feeling that together they can very much overcome any issue and that they are part of something bigger than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to the Covid crisis, WCK has served 40 million meals in communities from the U.S. to Spain, the Dominican Republic, India and Indonesia. It fed Afghan refugees in the Middle East and Europe after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan spurred a mass exodus. WCK has also set up relief operations in Tijuana and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico near the U.S. border, part of a wide-ranging effort to feed hungry immigrants as they await asylum hearings.<\/p>\n
And when Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, World Central Kitchen leapt into action. It has provided over 37 million meals to date in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Kramatorsk and other Ukrainian cities, and at border crossings. Chef Andr\u00e9s has been on the ground preparing food.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe landed 12 hours after the invasion began,\u201d Andr\u00e9s says. \u201cWe were never in a war before. Every time we hear a missile, our phones \u2014 the alarm goes off, because we have a system that warns us when a missile [strike] is happening nearby. Life is like a lottery, right? Food gives hope to people that way. We call ourselves food fighters. The atrocities we saw are real.\u201d<\/p>\n
War intensifies the risks faced by WCK teams, but responding to any kind of crisis \u2013 be it man-made, natural, or climate-change driven \u2013 comes with peril.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey face a lot of dangers. We have footage that shows a relief truck overturning. Sometimes a building can collapse,\u201d Howard notes. \u201cNow they\u2019re facing combat [in Ukraine]. It\u2019s mind-blowing. Frankly, it\u2019s been inspiring and also humbling for me to recognize this organization, the way it\u2019s grown.\u201d<\/p>\n
The director adds, \u201cI\u2019ve come to know the individuals involved, a handful of them very well, led by Jos\u00e9. When you first meet these people, you would certainly be impressed \u2014 they\u2019re smart, sharp people. They\u2019re full of life and vitality \u2014 but you wouldn\u2019t necessarily say, Oh, they\u2019re going to create an organization that can really revolutionize things. But I believe that\u2019s where World Central Kitchen is heading.\u201d<\/p>\n
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