Ron Howard and Jose Andres Hope to Spark Change With ‘We Feed People’ Emmy Nomination

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Addie Morfoot ContributorIn July, “We Feed People,” Ron Howard’s National Geographic documentary about celebrity chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen, received two Emmy nominations.That same month, World Central Kitchen, which cooks and delivers food to people in need following social and environmental disasters, continued its humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine.

The org has set up more than 5,000 distribution points and has served more than 100 million meals since entering the country in February.The Emmy nominations offer Howard and Andrés another opportunity to discuss the docu — but also the global efforts of World Health Kitchen that they hope will serve as a call to action, big or small. “I’m not a warrior out there in the field, but I’m doing the thing I can do, which is make a film,” says Howard. “Storytelling is meant to be used in many instances to enlighten, inspire, engage people’s imaginations, and transport them.

So suddenly, they can imagine what it might be like, if not, to be involved in an organization like World Central Kitchen; what would it be like to make a difference?

That’s what storytelling does; it stimulates that imagination.”In the week following the release of “We Feed People,” 1,000 people registered to volunteer for the organization.“People need to decide if they are going to look away from the troubles [going on] right now or if they are going to look at the problem and decide to be an active member of what’s wrong,” says Andrés. “Not everybody needs to show up in a war zone, but everybody can help in so many different ways.”A native of Spain, Andrés moved to the U.S.