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Bread winner

Adopting Stanley Kubrick's sterile, eerie desolation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Our Daily Bread focuses its lens on the world of industrial food production. Directed by Austrian Nicolaus Geyrhalter, the film contains no narration; only the whir of machines and the silent activities of factory workers provide the soundtrack to Geyrhalter's beautifully shot images of modern architecture and the mechanization of getting grub to our tables.

The 90-minute documentary won the Best Film award at the Ecocinema International Film Festival in Athens this year, and will be shown during Toronto's Planet In Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival, which runs November 1-5.

DiCaprio, Hollywood Eco-star

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to be the co-creator and co-executive producer of E-Topia, a new reality TV show that takes a small American town  from faded to eco-friendly. E-Topia is currently shopping for a network but it looks like reality television could be making a turn towards the positive. Co-executive producer Craig Piligian (Survivor) said:

"We're going to take a devastated community and help transform it as a prototype for the future. At the end of the day, we're all going to have to change the way we live, the way we burn and use fuel ... We're trying to show the country and the world by example, town by town by town, how we can change the way we live and fight global warming."

DiCaprio, best known for staring in films like Titanic, Basketball Diaries and The Departed, has been one of Hollywood's most vocal friends of the earth. He also narrates the upcoming feature film, 11th Hour, a documentary about the natural environment.