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NY summer Food + Film festivities

by cynthia yoo | June 12, 2008 at 10:11 am

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Mmm...delicious food + outdoor films + beach = mmm

New York City Food Film Festival has found the right equation, in my humble opinion. It will run a series of 18 films with related dishes to tempt all senses.

George Motz, who started the festival last year with chef Harry Hawk, says he wanted to create “a cinematic scratch 'n sniff where you can not only watch a food film but eat the food being shown in that film.” Which explains why Sweeney Todd isn't being screened.
There are 18 interesting-sounding films on the week long program, and each one is paired with edibles connected to the subject. This is My Cheesesteak, for instance, will be accompanied by cheestakes made on site by Philadelphia’s Tony Luke. The owner of il Buco, Donna Lennard, will pair her documentary La Raccolta, about olive oil traditions in central Italy, with an olive oil tasting. And on Tuesday, when the festival moves to the parking lot of Grimaldi’s for the screening of three short films about New York pizza, there will be free samples from the famous pizzeria.

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Amy Judd

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 14:58 on June 12th, 2008

cynthia yoo, I like this story. It's good stuff.

This is a great idea!

j_spoor

at 04:46 on June 13th, 2008

These are homemade cherry-lemon cupcakes with vanilla icing and pretty pink sprinkles!

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rad_thundercat

at 06:00 on June 13th, 2008

This is a home theater interior that we are finishing up with in Miami, FL. The image of the front is a 3d render I did before the room was built to show the client what the theater would look like. The other picture is a photograph I took on the job site while the installers were finishing up. The down lights are still not mounted and there is still some protective plastic around the room, but it still gives a good sense of how the theater turned out. The company that made this theater happen is Cinema Design Group, Int'l. The theater was designed and rendered by Andrew Trask.

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