Kitchenistas® are graduates of our Cooking for Salud® program. As part of the Kitchenistas Community Engagement Program, these graduates continue learning topics such as nutrition and health, leadership development, public speaking, emotional wellbeing, financial literacy, and others through ongoing Olivewood classes and workshops free of cost. Kitchenistas are also invited to partake in community education programs to lead their peers towards healthy lifestyles. For example, Kitchenistas present to parents at all ten National School District elementary schools twice per year on requested topics like meal prepping, involving your kids in the kitchen, and reading food labels.
Contact the Kitchenistas Program Coordinator, Monica Lim, at [email protected].
The Kitchenistas Documentary Films
The Kitchenistas is an award-winning, feature-length documentary film about women advocating for healthy food traditions to change communities and transform lives. What started as a 7-week nutrition program in 2012 in National City (CA) to help address health-related diseases has become a Latina-led movement to raise the community’s health, well-being, and resilience. – 400+ airings on 100s of PBS/public TV stations. The film is streaming now on Apple TV and other digital platforms found here.
The Kitchenistas film received the national Public Media Award (PMA) in the Independent Producer category, was selected by 10 film festivals, received 4 festival awards, and has been screened to audiences across the U.S., in MX, and globally.
Released in 2021, the feature film is fully re-shot, expansion of festival award-winning short film, The Kitchenistas of National City, had 100+ airings on 60 PBS/public TV stations from 2016-2020, and is available for free streaming on KPBS. The short was selected by 12 festivals, received 6 awards, premiered in New York City and in London at the Global Health Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Information Program by the Imagen Awards Program, the “Golden Globes” for Latino entertainment and media programming.
Watch the Official Kitchenistas Trailer Here: https://vimeo.com/515465762
