California bill AB626 was passed in 2018, legalizing home
restaurants. In 2019, Riverside, CA was the first and only county in
the country to implement the law. Now, home restaurant pioneers are
changing the face of food by bringing economic opportunity and
healthy food options to their communities. Through their food are
stories of strength, hope, resilience, and love.
Biography:
Eda
Benjakul is an Emmy award-winning non-fiction director and
producer specializing in lifestyle and culinary content. She is the
co-creator of the upcoming QuiBi comedic travel series, “High &
Low” w/ Erin and Sara Foster. Eda is a member of the Director’s
Guild of America and part of the Women’s Steering Committee, where
she directed a segment for the PBS San Bernardino Riverside station
KVCR, “Hope Builders: Making a Difference.” Her career began as a
researcher for ABC Network News, and she has always had a passion for
social impact content.Judi
Bushala “Avenue Edit”, a Chicago post-production house. With a background in art, she took the job on a whim and instantly
fell in love with editing. An exciting new career for her began and
she spent the next 5 years learning the nuances of film editing from
the ground up. Next she moved to Warsaw, Poland with a company called
Red Branch Productions. They produced shows for television networks
in the U.K. and Poland, their biggest client being Atomic TV,
Poland’s version of MTV. In 2002 Harpo Studios called and she began
editing for “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. It would be the most
transformative job of her career. For the next fourteen years, Harpo
became a place Bushala called home and her coworkers became her Harpo
family. During her time there, she mastered the art of storytelling
in the edit suite and won an Emmy Award.
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