Actor Bill Pullman is set to present his favourite food film, 1987’s Babette’s Feast, as the opening-night film at the world’s largest culinary film festival, Devour!, which runs Nov 4-8 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
- 9/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to David Kennard’s A Year In Champagne.
Kennard’s follow-up to documentary A Year In Burgundy will open in early spring 2015 and chronicles the history of the iconic bubbly.
Samuel Goldwyn Films brokered the deal with executive producer Todd Ruppert.
Focus Features will release Christ The Lord wide on March 23, 2016. The story attempts to present a broader understanding of Jesus Christ and his family, inspired by Biblical accounts of his youth.
Kennard’s follow-up to documentary A Year In Burgundy will open in early spring 2015 and chronicles the history of the iconic bubbly.
Samuel Goldwyn Films brokered the deal with executive producer Todd Ruppert.
Focus Features will release Christ The Lord wide on March 23, 2016. The story attempts to present a broader understanding of Jesus Christ and his family, inspired by Biblical accounts of his youth.
- 7/24/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to A Year In Champagne. Writer-director David Kennard’s follow-up to A Year In Burgundy focuses on France’s most famous beverage and was bought after screening at the Santa Barbara and Palm Beach fests. Pic will be released in the spring. We like drinking it but watching it? There is a lot of ground covered here. Pic covers the beverage’s history, grim and bloody, swept by war and destruction from Attila the Hun to the filthy trenches of Wwi and the Nazi depredations of WWII. The environment for winemaking is desperately hard — northerly […]...
- 7/24/2014
- Deadline
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