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Opening Event

Friday, October 20th

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11:00 AM

HEARTBEAT

Latin American Premiere

Directed by: Mónica Franco

Portuguese and Bosnian with English Subtitles

 

From a one - Michelin - star restaurant in Lisbon to a basketball court in Sarajevo, an emigrant that escaped from a recent war is portrayed in his many facets. How cooking became his “American-dream” and led him to success, but also how he deals with his worst nightmares. We enter inside the universe of his kitchen but specially inside an unstoppable mind and a passionate adventurer. 

$350 pesos

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Gina Rae La Cerva

Lecture 

The award-winning writer and environmental anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva is joining us as Food In Film Festival's main keynote speaker. Her first book, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food, was recommended by the The New York Times and named an Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2020. Gina Rae holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Vassar College. She loves to cook and eat!

 

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Feasting Wild: A journey into the history of hunting and gathering

15:00
$100 pesos
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17:00

The Heat
A Kitchen (R)evolution

2018 - Documentary

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Directed by: Maya Gallus
Starring: Suzanne Barr, Victoria Blarney, Amanda Cohen

It takes a brazen personality to excel in the competitive sport of professional cooking. A woman can only ascend the ranks if she can take the heat. Meet seven women chefs at the forefront of a "revolution."

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$350 pesos
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Saturday, October 21st

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Fear No Fruit

2015 - Documentary
11:00 AM

Directed by: Mark Brian Smith

Starring: Frieda Caplan

The film chronicles Frieda Caplan's rise from being the first woman entrepreneur on the L.A. Wholesale Produce Market in the 1960s to transforming American cuisine by introducing over 200 exotic fruits and vegetables to U.S. supermarkets. Still, an inspiration at 91, Frieda's daughters and granddaughter carry on the business legacy.

$350 pesos

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Gina Rae La Cerva

WORKSHOP:

Food Memoir: How to use food to write memoir

In this generative memoir-writing workshop led by award-winning writer Gina Rae La Cerva. We will be use the subject of food as a starting point to explore our inner worlds. We’ll access deep memories, connect to our childhoods, examine our heritage, and reflect on our personal growth.

 

About the lecture: Writing Food Memoir Part 1: Learn the art of the gastronomic memoir and explore personal stories of your own through food writing. Eating is a daily necessity, a pleasure, and an act of creativity. Food connects us to our ancestors, our landscapes, and our bodies. Our relationship to both is complicated, and writing short personal narratives about it can help us to illuminate deeper truths about ourselves.

15:00
$100 pesos
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Back to Burgundy

2017 - Drama
17:00

Directed by: Cedric Klapisch

Starring: Pio Marmai, Ana Girardot & Francois Civil

After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have to re-build their relationship and trust as a family again.

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$350 pesos
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Sunday, October 22nd

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11:00 AM

The Donut King

2020 - Documentary

Directed by: Alice Gu

Starring: Chuong Pek Lee, Susan Lim
& Ted Ngoy

This documentary tells Ted Ngoy's story that is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption.

$350 pesos

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Gina Rae La Cerva

15:00

WORKSHOP:

Writing Food Memoir Part 2

In this generative memoir-writing workshop led by award-winning writer Gina Rae La Cerva. We will explore food heritage and how it plays a role in our connection with eating today and the future. We will discuss appetite & pleasure as ways to more deeply understand the sensuality, longing, and satiation of eating.

Through short prompts, we’ll examine the craft of writing about food, highlighting the tools needed to create stellar food writing including ingredients, timing, and temperature. Along the way, we’ll look at the essential components of using sensory details to inform and inspire.

$100 pesos
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ROAD RUNNER

17:00

Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the uncommon life of world-traveling icon Anthony Bourdain, his career as a chef, writer, and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture, and travel.

$350 pesos

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