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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Egg Cream
Directed by Nora Claire Miller, Peter Miller & Amy Linton • Documentary • 2020 • 15 minutes
EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream – it was a product of necessity an...
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Impromptu
Directed by Bruce Alcock • Animation • 2013 • 10 minutes
Impromptu takes a look at the redemptive power of food, wine, music and love through the eyes of a modern man. Chuck is in his element, cooking and listening to Chopin with his baby daughter, imagining what he will say to his wife Sylvie o...
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Lunch Love Community
Directed by Helen De Michiel • Documentary • 2015 • 78 minutes
LUNCH LOVE COMMUNITY is a beautiful and engaging story of how a diverse group of pioneering parents and food advocates came together to tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and neighborhoods of Berkeley, CA.
Through a ...
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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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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
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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...
