French-Uruguayan filmmaker Juan Pittaluga is well known in the world of food for his collaboration with Jonathan Nossiter on the Cannes-selected documentary Mondovino (2003). He is now working on both a feature fiction film, Punta del Este, and Miracolo del gusto, a border-crossing documentary about taste.

 A woman who moves heaven and earth. 

Marie-Monique Robin is one of those women who never stop… fighting. While she finished the shocking documentary The World According to Monsanto back in 2007, she continues to promote the movie as well as the eponymous book - an investigation into the disastrous results of pressure directed towards the growing of genetically-modified wheat by the American corporation Monsanto.

Dynamic, enthusiastic, persevering, this journalist is invited everywhere to debate on her pet subject: the stakes of biodiversity. She reaches her public with simple words, concrete and terrifying examples. This strength of conviction, this faith, animates a woman who is a role model for investigatory journalism. As a reporter she has travelled a lot, particularly in Latin America, and has always unearthed hot potatoes such as organ theft.

Were you always interested in the subject food?

No, I wasn’t. In my opinion, this topic was neglected a long time. When I developed the project, I didn’t know that Erwin Wagenhofer had the same idea and made the documentary We feed the world. Both films were financed by the EU at the same time.

Even if your film Our Daily Bread was financed by the EU, you pointed out the European agricultural politic in a critical way…

For me, it’s a big illusion. The whole European agriculture wouldn’t run without the cheap workers who are often illegals. For the film it wasn’t important where to shoot because all over Europe the process is the same. The film allowed us to look behind the scenes into a very closed zone: the foodstuff sector.