BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:815@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T213000 DTSTAMP:20220923T194402Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/devour-opening-gala-film-sorry-were-clo sed/ SUMMARY:Devour! Opening Gala Film: Sorry We're Closed DESCRIPTION:The voice of the independent restaurateur is seldom heard\, yet the restaurant industry is the second largest employer in the United Stat es and the heart of any city. In the summer of 2020\, when restaurants are doubly hit hard by COVID-19 and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder\ , Chef Elizabeth Falkner sets out across the country to check in with her renowned chef and restaurateur colleagues. Former restaurant owner\, award -winning chef\, and lifelong activist\, she wants to know how they are cop ing with the impossible task of keeping their doors open.\n\nDirector Pete Ferriero and Chef Elizabeth Falkner will be in attendance and will partic ipate in a post-screening Q&\;A with festival host Bob Blumer.\n\nOn th is special evening\, we will also screen and award the youth winner of the Nourish Nova Scotia Food &\; Film Challenge\, where we invited childre n and youth of all ages to make a short film about Everybody Eats: The Pow er of Plants. The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Nourish Nova Sc otia to support a healthy eating program or initiative in their school/com munity\, as well as $500.00 in equipment from CBC. To enter a film in the competition\, click here.\n\nTicket Price: $25.00\n\nSponsored by CBC Atla ntic and The Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia\n\nPete Ferriero\, Dire ctor\n\nPete Ferriero is the director of the 2021 documentary film Her Nam e Is Chef (Hulu). It was inspired by a first-hand experience Ferriero had at a New Jersey female-owned restaurant\, in which the owner was strugglin g to prove herself to her male counterparts. In the film\, Ferriero tackle s the topic of gender equality in a male-dominated industry through the ey es of “six bad-ass\, inspiring\, sheroes of the kitchen”. The film has garnered wonderful press from numerous shows and publications including G ood Morning America\, People\, Bustle\, and more. Ferriero’s directorial debut was the 2017 documentary film The Price of Fame\, where he explored the struggles of fame and faith inside the colourful world of professiona l wrestling. The film screened in 650 theatres for one night as a part of a Fathom Event. In addition\, the film trended on Amazon and iTunes when i t was released digitally. @peterferriero\n\nElizabeth Falkner\n\nCelebrate d Chef Elizabeth Falkner was born in San Francisco\, grew up in Los Angele s\, and worked her way up in San Francisco’s top kitchens before opening her first restaurant\, Citizen Cake\, in 1997. A decade later\, she opene d four more restaurants in San Francisco and New York. Today\, she does re cipe development and consults on numerous products and brands. A long-time member of Women Chefs &\; Restaurateurs—serving as president from 20 14 to 2015 and again from 2019 to 2020—Chef Falkner continues to compete and judge on many television cooking-competition programs including Tourn ament of Champions\, Iron Chef\, Next Iron Chef\, Top Chef Masters\, and m ore for the Food Network\, Cooking Channel\, Bravo\, and NBC\, and has mad e appearances on many other shows. She loves to teach about the importance of creativity in cooking\, is an inspiring public speaker\, and has cooke d and spoken all over the United States\, Asia\, and Europe. Her style of cuisine is globally inspired and she cooks both savoury and sweet\, tradit ional and modern. @cheffalkner\n\nBob Blumer\, Host\n\nGastronaut\, author \, and 8X Guinness World Record holder Bob Blumer is best known as the cre ator and host of Food Network’s award-winning shows Surreal Gourmet\, Gl utton for Punishment\, and World’s Weirdest Restaurants. He has written seven cookbooks—transforming ordinary ingredients into wow-inspiring dis hes through simple cooking methods and whimsical presentations that have b ecome his culinary trademark. The Globe and Mail called his most recent bo ok\, Flavorbomb: a rogue guide to making everything taste better\, “a cr ash course in becoming a better\, bolder cook”. Bob is a long-term ambas sador for Second Harvest\, a perishable food bank\, and an ambassador for Love Food/Hate Waste\, a national Canadian zero-waste initiative. Bob docu ments his love of food\, travel\, and Wolfville on Instagram. You can stal k him @bobblumer. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://devourfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/0 9/sorry-were-closed.jpg CATEGORIES:FILM LOCATION:Al Whittle Theatre\, 450 Main St\, Wolfville\, NS\, B4P 1E2\, Cana da GEO:45.0915;-64.362765 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=450 Main St\, Wolfville\, N S\, B4P 1E2\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Al Whittle Theatre:geo:45. 0915,-64.362765 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR