Legendary Producer and Filmmaker Trudie Styler’s Posso Entrare: An Ode to Naples and Grasshopper Republic directed by Daniel McCabe Win Best Feature Documentary.
Left to Right: Executive Director, Devour! Michael Howell, filmmaker Trudie Styler and Managing Director of Devour! Lia Rinaldo. 2nd Picture Golden Tine Jury members Ron Foley MacDonald, Jacopo Chessa, Veneto Film Commission, Dieter Kosslick, GREEN VISIONS POTSDAM.
October 28, 2024, Wolfville, NS, The 14th Annual Devour! Food Film Fest celebrated groundbreaking films and is proud to announce its 2024 Golden Tine winners. Notably, Trudie Styler’s Posso Entrare: An Ode to Naples received the award for Best Feature Documentary. Regional filmmakers also won big at this year’s festival. Northumberland Regional High School student Audrey Taylor won the Nourish Food Film Challenge with her film The Karma Project. Additionally, Director Rose Schoonhoven took home the award in the Atlantic Film Co-Operative & Devour! Short Food Film Competition for her film The Roots of Change, which tells the story of the Scotsburn Community Food Forest.
This year’s Jury reviewed over 50 films. The Golden Tine Jury included celebrated international film experts Dieter Kosslick, former Director of the Berlin International Film Festival and current artistic Director of GREEN VISIONS POTSDAM and Jacopo Chessa, Executive Director of the Veneto Film Commission, Ron Foley MacDonald, motion picture industry veteran and President of the Halifax-based, Winter Light Productions.
“Devour! The Food Film Fest is a feast for the senses! For one magical week, you forget about calories and make memories,” says Dieter Kosslick, film expert and artistic Director of GREEN VISIONS POTSDAM. “The sense of community, the lively atmosphere, and the quality of films was truly impressive.”
“We were thrilled to have Trudie Styler and our esteemed panel of international and local judges join us for the 14th Annual Devour! Food Film Fest,” says Lia Rinaldo, Managing Director of the festival. “This year’s Game Changing theme explored everything from the life of fungi to the vital role of migrant farm workers in our food ecosystem, taking us all on an incredible journey. This invigorating week of food and film has been fantastic, and we can’t wait to begin preparations for our 15th festival, which will take place from October 20-26, 2025.”
DEVOUR! GOLDEN TINES 2024 AWARD WINNERS:
Best Feature Drama:
Holy Cow directed by Louise Courvoisier (Distributor: Zeitgeist Films)
A coming of age story set in a cheese-making region of France, Holy Cow sees traditions eventually redirect a wayward youth who is in the pursuit of love and purpose.
Honourable Mention:
Widow Clicquot directed by Thomas Napper (Distributor: Vertical Entertainment)
Beautifully designed, acted and directed, This is a film about a woman who successfully took on a man’s job during the Napoleonic Wars to run her husband’s Champaign Winery, resulting in the establishment of one of the most legendary and enduring labels in the wine industry.
Best Short Drama:
It’s a tie! Lunchbox directed by Anne Hu is a film about a mother and daughter relationship illustrated through food preparation and cultural differences all delivered with tart, imaginative editing. The Ballad of Tita and the Machines directed by Miguel Angel Caballero is an imaginative sci-fi short about an elderly California migrant worker who is hilariously replaced by a series of incompetent robots, the Human Factor in agriculture is celebrated and reclaimed, deftly and pointedly.
Best Feature Documentary:
Another tie between Posso Entrare: An Ode to Naples directed by Trudie Styler (Distributor: RAI Cinema) and Grasshopper Republic directed by Daniel McCabe (Distributor: Taskovski Films)
Trudie’s unconventional portrait of Naples reveals a proud, resilient people dealing with two thousand years of tragic history all while taking their places in the contemporary world. Grasshopper Republic is a game changing film that reminds the first world of the harsh realities of the third world. This film shares how two African men struggle to harvest grasshoppers on an industrial scale with old machinery.
Best Short Documentary:
Fungi: Web Of Life directed by Joseph Nizeti, Gisela Kaufmann (Distributor: Demand Film Inc.)
With time lapse motion picture photography to die for, this visually stunning film looks at nature’s version of the World Wide Web. Narrated by Bjork, in a cool, enlightening VoiceOver.
Best Short Animation:
White Plastic Sky directed by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó (Distributor: Films Boutique) This dazzling Hungarian animated feature sees a post apocalyptic future that blends imagination with a pungent environmental message. Its vast ambition results in a deeply engrossing story of surprisingly hard-core sci-fi.
Honourable Mention:
My Name Is Edgar and I Have A Cow directed by Filip Diviak
After a farm visit a man invites a calf to co-habitate…with bizarre and very funny results, in this wonderful Eastern European animated short that neatly examines the sometimes quizzical relationship we have with our animals.
