It’s conducive to producing the ideal champagne grape because of this change in climate,” Bastianich, who hosted a screening of the Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci-starring 1996 Italian restaurant drama Big Night while at Devour!, told THR.
It’s the micro climate, which compares to the champagne region of France. It’s the minerals and the sea and the seafood. “The local ingredients reflect the terroir.
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“All of our production equipment had to pulled by scooters, like La Strada,” Pantoliano said of shooting the Canada-Italy co-production against the backdrop of Italy’s iconic wine country.Ĭelebrity chef and PBS TV host Lidia Bastianich while attending Devour! adds Wolfville’s mountains-by-the-sea climate as it ideally grows local food and wine products also encourages Devour!’s culinary cinema ambitions. Indie film remains a centerpiece of Devour!, as Joe Pantoliano, best known for his star turns on HBO’s The Sopranosand in the film Memento, was on hand to tout his latest movie, the whimsical Italian vineyard drama From the Vine by director Sean Cisterna.
“People come for the films, but it’s challenging as we’re losing titles to Netflix when they come out,” Lia Rinaldo said as the 2019 lineup includes Berlin premieres like Honeyland, the award winning documentary by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska about a Balkan woman using ancient beekeeping traditions to make honey in Macedonia, and Ghost Fleet, a film the exposes slavery in the Thai fishing industry from directors Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron. The need for Devour! to continuing expanding and reinventing itself comes as content-hungry streaming platforms increasingly swallow up food-themed movies before they can enjoy long runs on the festival circuit. Devour! today goes beyond a core event in Nova Scotia to satellite events worldwide, including in Los Angeles and Sonoma in California, Vero Beach, Florida, the Bahamas and as part of the Berlin Film Festival. Their collaboration began a decade ago when Rinaldo, a veteran film festival programmer, and Howell, a Wolfville-based chef, combined talents to make a splash by pairing movies and themed dinners. This idea that you can go to a festival and not be kept from the stars, whether for food or film, is what we want,” Howell explains. Lidia Bastianich is walking along the street. We’re all hobnobbing with the directors and celebrity chefs, while they’re separated at other festivals. For Devour! co-founders Michael Howell and Lia Rinaldo, film-themed feasts as events offer an antidote to the traditional film festival’s existential threat from the streaming space. “The film is extremely dark and I thought if I knew my son was in deep waters, what would be my last lunch together,” Smiles said of his film-to-food inspiration.
They appear in a raw tuna crudo topped with a basil, mint and pistachio sauce that chef Danny Smiles - co-host of Food Network’s Chuck & Danny’s Road Trip reality series -hatched after viewing Men Overboard, Alexandre Rufin’s moody short film about a fisherman recalling his son drowning in stormy seas. There’s chef Brady Bertrand’s fried chicken smothered in buttermilk foam to symbolize the bubbly flowing in deathbed toasts as a family patriarch lies dying in Olivia Saperstein’s short Champagne. More high-drama film and food pairings follow at the Lightfoot & Wolfville Vineyards gala dinner amid wine barrels and iron chandeliers. “The best revenge in life is living well, so I chose porchetta, stuffed and sliced it and added elements of darkness and loss with the plum mostarda,” Rinaldo, a chef at Rinaldo’s Italian American Specialties eatery in Halifax, explains after leaving 150 Devour! festgoers in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in thrall as they take their first bites.
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