The Chicago Food Film Fest is coming up shortly. It runs from November 18 through 20th at Kendall College and Intelligentsia Roasting Works. This is the festival where you can, literally, taste what is on the screen.

The festival is produced in association with the James Beard Foundation and benefits The Good Food Project.

You can get tickets, see a full schedule (too big for me to run here) and--also important—find out the FOOD they will have at each event by visiting www.thefoodfilmfestival.com.

The New Media Film Festival has been dubbed “Sundance for the Facebook crowd by one publication. I admit to having no idea what that means. But I do know that the New Media Film Festival allows filmmakers using new forms of media a venue to show their creations—be it in San Francisco or Los Angeles.

The 2nd San Francisco New Media Film Festival will consist of 45 films/filmmakers, panesl with new media CEOs, journalists, red carpet interviews and an award ceremony. All of this costs $30. I would have listed the details but there are too many. Head towww.NewMediaFilmFestival.com for the full scoop.

The NYC Food Film Festival Tickets are now on sale. They have also announced some tantalizing details about this year’s festival. There will be over 25 films screened between October 13 and 16th at Tribeca Cinemas.

This is a festival where you get more than a movie, however, you literally can taste what is on the screen. General admission tickets are available for all events and there are VIP and Festival-wide passes available as well.  Menus at each event include food from the specific movie, beer, wine, cocktails (presented by “festival mixologist” Allen Katz).

I was just happy to see a movie section post. They come so rarely. Usually the releases confound me or are for something happening on the day they are sent out (or I don’t get to them for a week). Really should write more about movies.

 For details and to purchase tickets head to www.thefoodfilmfestival.com. Please note, the VIP and Festival-wide tickets are limited.

The New Media Film Festival’s two day event will be held at the Los Angeles Film School’s new state-of-the-art facility. The Fest takes place May 20-21, 2011.

The festival brings together professionals with aspiring film makers working in a variety of categories. This year these will include Mobile, Web Series, Shorts, Animation, iApps, Documentaries, Features, Socially Responsible Content, Audience Choice Awards (Online Competition for Web Series), Music Videos, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Digital Comics and projects shot in RED or 3D.

The deadline for entries is April 15, 2011. You can find categories at www.newmediafilmfestival.com.

The festival is also looking for sponsors. You can find out more on this HERE.

The New Media Festival brings professionals and creative types together. In addition to screenings there are panel discussion, demos of new technology, financing (always important) and much more.

Sponsored, in Los Angeles, by the  New Media Film Festival, this is a collection of audiences in 203 cities on all the continents (excepting I assume Antarctica) judging the finalists of the Manhattan Film Festival. The L.A. screening at 7 p.m., Sunday, September 26 at Kess Pro Studions, 435 South Molino Street, Los Angeles, California. You can find out more on a worldwide venue near you HERE.

There will be a red carpet special screening of the first short (Red Princess Blues) to have an iApp with an introduction by director Alex Ferrari.

Four hundred forty entries were received from 43 countries; ten of these 15 minutes or under films were selected as finalists. Past finalists have gone on to be nominated and win the Oscar for short film. A winner from these ten finalists will be announced in New York City on October 3.

Films include: WATCHING( UK)  , PUSH BIKE ( AUSTRALIA ), UNDERGROUND( MEXICO ),LITTLE INCONVENIENCE ( CANADA ),PARTY( CROATIA ), ECHO ( POLAND ),MADAGASCAR( FRANCE ), 12 YEARS ( GERMANY ),THEPOOL ( IRELAND ) and  WAR ( ITALY )

You can get $10 tickets for the LA Screening at, www.NewMediaTickets.com

 

Earlier this year we wrote about the NYC Food Film Festival. Four years into that fest (and over 20,000 attendies) they are expanding outward. The first annual Chicago Film Festival will take place September 24-25 at the MCA Warehouse. The festival will feature documentaries, shorts, features and, of course, food. How many other festivals let you taste what you watch?

The festival will feature films including Mark Irving’s Eat Your Fill, Orrin Zucker’s The Death & Life of Ice Cream, Craig Noble’s The Perfect Oyster and many more. One of the second night features is The Best of Hamburger America, a film by the festival’s director George Motz, for instance. Motz and Harry Hawk came up with the idea for the fest after the success of Hamburger America (book and film).

There are (or perhaps at this point WERE) a limited number of special VIP passes and pre-sale tickets to most events. They went on sale Aug 19 so I apologize if they are gone!

Visit www.chicagofoodfilmfestival.com to order and for information.

The New York City Food Film Festival, with the James Beard Foundation, are presentint the world preimer of the film Florent: Queens of the Meat Market, June 24, 2010 at the Altman Building, 135 West 18th Street. 

The event is hosted by and a benefit for The Food Bank for New York City. Performances by Daniel Nardicio, David Ilku, David Rakoff, Dirty Martini, Flotilla DeBarge, Lucy Sexton, Nora Burns, Penny Arcade and others.

Guests will also be able to taste for a selection of Restaurant Florent menu items.

Director David Signal, a devotee of the bistro, decided to document the restaurant’s history (including its wild parties) after hearing rumors that through-the-roof rents in the now gentrified area might force the closure of the restaurant (it closed in 2008).

Tickets are available on the NYC Food Film Festival Website.

for $75. There are also VIP tickets (limited) for $125. The VIP tickets include a gift bag and early entry at 8 p.m.

You can see a trailer here- www.nowness.com/day/2010/5/28/662/florent--a-downtown-swan-song