Season one · Costa Blanca, Spain

Let the Heroes tell their stories.

Eight cinematic episodes. No narrator. No host. Each Food Hero speaks in their own voice and language, letting the work, the landscape and what is at stake unfold from inside the story.

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Episode 01In production

The Mountain in the Jar

He took a beekeeping course during the pandemic. It changed the way he saw an entire mountain.

Episode 02Coming soon

What Pego Kept

A rice disappeared from the fields for fifty years. To bring it back, Vicent had to find the people who still remembered how to grow it.

Episode 03Coming soon

The Curator

The man who once curated Tate Modern says the land saved him. Now he is building the world's biggest collection of citrus varieties.

Episode 04Coming soon

Dryland

No irrigation. Old olive trees. A family grove. Miguel stopped forcing the land and waited to see what would return.

Episode 05Coming soon

The Taste She Remembered

The supermarket peanuts tasted so wrong that Ana checked the expiry date. That moment sent her back to a seed her family had kept for generations.

Episode 06Coming soon

The Terraces of Llíber

His father's bodega made wine for the world. Pepe went looking for the future of Mediterranean wine in the grapes and dry terraces everyone else had left behind.

Episode 07Coming soon

She inherited a Roman winery with no light switch, and a tradition that survives only if someone keeps doing it. Every September the grapes are trodden by foot, by candlelight, the way the Romans did it here.

Episode 08Coming soon

An Activist Who Cooks

After twenty-five years fighting for the food of his territory, Pep is stepping away from the kitchen. The question is: did he change anything?