Win Two Tickets To The Chicago Food Film Fest

Get ready for some visual pangs of hunger. The Chicago Food Film Festival is headed back to town in two weeks, running November 15 – 17. This year’s Festival will feature 17 films (four of which have never been seen before), plus one U.S. premiere. Best part of all? Many of the films feature food from local chefs, so you can nosh while you watch. How great would it have been to be served ramen while watching “Tampopo,” or mole negro during “Like Water for Chocolate”? Organizers are going for the same sort of vibe. And here’s a bonus for my readers: you can win two tickets to opening night on the 15th.

All you need to do is tell me what your favorite food movie is, and in 50 words or less, why. Was it a particular scene? A dish? I’m looking for something evocative, enticing and mouth-watering. Entries have to be submitted here, on my website, in the comments section. Contest ends next Thursday, November 8th at 5 p.m.  Winner will be announced Monday, November 12th, in the morning.

The Food Film Fest is produced in association with the James Beard Foundation, incidentally, and benefits The Good Food Project.  Here are a few samples of this year’s entries:

10,000 Cases
Dir. Craig Noble, 4 minutes, World Premiere
The entire harvest of a single British Columbia winemaker squeezed into two minutes.

Artisan Baker
Dir Una Morera, 8 min, Chicago Premiere
Weaving philosophy with his love of food, a third generation Italian artisan baker discusses crafting and consuming food made with love.

Vegetables: Friend or Foe?
Dir. Grady Hendrix, 6 minutes
What are vegetables? Are they here to help us or harm us? Is it true that tomatoes grow best when fertilized with human blood? Dirt Candy examines the many myths surrounding vegetables, showing us their lighter, and darker, sides using bad animation, clumsy diagrams, and pseudoscience.

Farmer Poet
Dir Dan Fisher, Becky Liscum, Gail Grasso, 3:30 min, Chicago Premiere
Meet Harry Carr, an organic livestock farmer and poet.

Fish Fry Night Milwaukee
Dir. Ron Faiola, Chicago Premiere
A film about the history and tradition of the Friday Night Fish Fry and the people who create them.

Food Porn
Dir. Charles Grantham, 2:44 minutes, Chicago Premiere
Larry Cauldwell takes food porn to the next level… depending on your point of view, this may or may not be a good thing.