Food, Glorious Food!
Dig into OVID's collection of films that celebrate food and drink and the people who make it! Newest additions include Matt Mahurin's bitingly funny docu-comedy I Like Killing Flies, starring Kenny Shopsin – a prickly, profanity-prone man dishing up bites of wisdom while cooking up a storm, serving up a charming slice of New York history. Other highlights include Sara Dosa's The Last Season on Central Oregon's wild mushroom hunting, and The Art of Cooking with Fire about self-taught Bittor Arginzoniz, who achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Asador Etxebarri, ranked as one of the best restaurants in the world.
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Imaginary Feasts
Directed by Anne Georget • Documentary • 2014 • 70 minutes
IMAGINARY FEASTS explores how in Nazi concentration cmaps, Soviet Gulags and Japanese prison camps, starving prisoners shared and recorded favorite meals and recipes. By examing how these objects of survival, the film shows quiet acts of...
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Evolution of Organic
Directed by Mark Kitchell • Documentary • 2017 • 87 minutes
EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC brings us the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers' sons and daughters rejected modern chemical farming and set out ...
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The Hand That Feeds
Directed by Rachel Lears, Robin Blotnick • Documentary • 2015 • 84 minutes
At a popular bakery cafe, residents of New York's Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, ...
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Mina's Recipe Book
Directed by Anne Georget • Documentary • 2007 • 45 minutes
More than 40 years ago, the phone rang in Anny Stern's New York City home. It was a man she didn't know, calling to giver her a notebook. Covered in brown paper, its pages hand-sewn together, this was no ordinary notebook. It was one in ...
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Old or New?
Directed by Ernesto Cabello • Documentary • 2013 • 29 minutes
The very future of food -- and farming -- is being re-imagined in a city where nobody dined out 20 years ago, where there is no national tradition of gastronomy, and where there is considerable malnutrition. But in the capital of Peru...
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1 seasonFood for Thought
1 season
In the series, Food for Thought, seven young people start a dialogue with seven philosophers. As food is simply the best way to connect with one another, we cook and eat together while reflecting on crucial life questions. By bringing philosophy into the kitchen, we put theory into practice: we t...
