The Devour! Golden Tines Award Brunch

It’s baaaaacccckkkkk. Come join us for an unforgettable celebration of the 2024 festival as we host the return of our Devour! Golden Tine Awards Brunch. Renowned Chef Craig Flinn, a longtime friend of the festival, will be curating a group of talented Nova Scotia chefs to create delicious brunch dishes showcasing local eggs. During the event, we will be presenting our prestigious Golden Tine Awards in five categories: Best Animation, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Drama, Best Feature Documentary, and Best Feature Drama. The winners of these awards are selected by our esteemed jury members, including Dieter Kosslick, former Director of the Berlin International Film Festival, and Jacopo Chessa, executive director of the Veneto Film Commission.

Ticket Price: $50.00, includes brunch and beverages
Sponsored by the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia, L’Acadie Vineyards

Craig Flinn 

Chef Craig Flinn is a culinary expert with a diverse background. After graduating from St. Mary’s University in 1993, he worked full-time as a chef to fund his education. He further honed his skills at the Culinary Institute of Canada, graduating in 1997 and training under Chef Michael Smith at The Inn at Bay Fortune. Chef Flinn’s culinary journey took him to Switzerland, London’s Savoy Hotel, and New York, before returning to Halifax in 2001 to open one of Nova Scotia’s original farm-to-table restaurants, Chives Canadian Bistro, in addition to 2 Doors Down and Temple Bar. He recently sold his restaurant interests to concentrate on his company, Fork in the Road Productions, focusing on a variety of work in the media, restaurant consulting, executive catering, and culinary tourism. He has written five celebrated cookbooks, contributed to numerous culinary publications, and has been hosting all-inclusive culinary tours across Europe since 2011, with plans to venture into Portugal in 2025. @chefcraigflinn

The Devour! Golden Tine Awards Jury

Jacopo Chessa 

Jacopo Chessa majored in film studies and worked largely in the 1950s and 1960s in French cinema. He has published two books and many articles; and cooperated with the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, the University of Torino, and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. Since the beginning of 2014, he has been the director of the Italian Short Film Center. In 2016, he founded the Torino Short Film Market which he directed until 2020. He worked as a contract professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 from 2017 to 2019. Since 2020, he’s been CEO of the Veneto Film Commission. @jj_chessa @venetofilmcommission 

Dieter Kosslick
As Managing Director of the cultural and economic film-funding organizations in Hamburg (Hamburger Filmbüro and FilmFonds Hamburg), Dieter Kosslick co-founded Cinema on the Alster and the European Low-Budget Film Forum, as well as the European Film Distribution Fund. In 1991, he moved to Düsseldorf as Managing Director of the new Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, where he also became a founding member of the International Film School IFS. In 2001, the German government appointed him Director of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale, where he revitalised the film festival with numerous initiatives such as the Talent Campus (Talents) and the co-production market. He is a recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Witzigmann Prize. In 2021, his memoir, Immer auf dem Teppich bleiben – von magischen Momenten und der Zukunft des Kinos, was published. Since 2024, Kosslick has been director of the new environmental film festival Greenvisions Potsdam in Germany. @dieterkosslick @greenvisionspotsdam