The 9th annual Coronado Island Film Festival, which will run from Nov. 6-10, is partnering with The San Diego Food + Wine Festival for this year’s Culinary Cinema Series.
The Culinary Cinema Series is a segment of the film festival that features food-based screenings that are paired with a culinary experience that complements the on-screen story. Events for this series will run throughout the weekend.
The slate of films include “Fish & Men,” a documentary feature film by Darby Duffin and Adam Jones that exposes the high cost of cheap fish by revealing how consumer demand drives the global seafood economy, threatening local fishing communities and public health. One of the chefs featured in the film, Michael Cimarusti, chef and co-owner/partner of two Michelin-starred restaurants in Los Angeles, will participate in a panel and food demo following the film.
On Friday, a special screening of “Wild Hope: Mission Impossible” will be held, presenting the story of how a late-career epiphany led “wacky genius” Pat Brown to abandon his academic career and commit himself to fighting global warming and biodiversity collapse. This started with a surprising product – a plant-based hamburger, the Impossible Burger. Pat Brown is the founder of Impossible Foods and will attend the screening and post-reception featuring vegetarian tastings.
A screening of “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall,” a film about Chef David Yárnoz and his high-end restaurants in the North of Spain and Taiwan, will be held on Sunday. The film will touch on the post-pandemic problems Yárnoz faced in bringing Spanish cuisine to the other side of the world.
On Sunday, “Marcella,” the first documentary about the life of Marcella Hazan, will have its world premiere at CIFF. Hazan’s life story includes losing full function of her right hand and immigrating to New York before becoming the godmother of Italian cooking.
The film’s Emmy and Peabody-award winning Director Peter Miller, Producer Renée Frigo and Executive Producer Chef Art Smith will be in attendance and on a panel following the film. Smith is the co-owner of six restaurants, is a two-time James Beard award winner, New York Times best-selling cookbook author, and has worked as personal chef to Oprah Winfrey for ten years. A reception featuring Italian bites will follow the screening.
Tickets for the Culinary Cinema Series are on sale now. Purchase tickets at https://festival.coronadofilmfest.com/
