April 23, 2024

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Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF) Presented By Halekulani Unveils Inaugural 2021 HIFF Eat.Drink.Film Series

A scene from MIO’S COOKBOOK. Photograph courtesy of HIFF

“HIFF is proud to present this multi-day feast celebrating outstanding culinary cinema from various nations,” says HIFF Executive Director Beckie Stocchetti. “This showcase spotlights the stories of nourishment over and above the plate and reminds us that what we eat (both of those food items and film) matters.”

The Hawai‘i Intercontinental Movie Pageant (HIFF) offered by Halekulani, continues their re-imagined 2021 Spring Showcase edition with the start of the 3rd mini-fest in the series, Take in. Consume. Movie. an expansion of HIFF’s popular Take in. Consume. Movie. program offered as section of the once-a-year Tumble Pageant. Take in. Consume. Movie. will operate June 10th-twentieth, and will feature culinary films from about the planet which includes extraordinary functions and documentaries. The program will feature 6 feature films & four short films alongside with filmmaker Q&As, are living virtual foodie gatherings, and special partnerships with nearby eating places. Highlights consist of:

CRIOLLO, documentary feature directed by Pablo Banchero, follows Uruguayan chef Hugo Soca as he requires the audience via the heart of Uruguay’s abundant culinary traditions.

The Intercontinental Premiere of Foods LUCK, directed by Jimon Terakado. Many are calling this Narrative Feature a cinematic enjoy letter to Japanese grilled beef.

The United States Premiere of MIO’S COOKBOOK, directed by Haruki Kadokawa. This stunning time period piece established in early 1800’s Japan, follows youthful Osaka-indigenous Mio as she attempts to infiltrate the Edo restaurant scene.

Virtual Panel program: THE SHEROES OF THE Kitchen a special dialogue with womyn cooks and food items activists from Hawai‘i to focus on their professions in one particular of the nation’s most exciting culinary scenes, as very well as challenges involving gender parity, personnel rights, food items sustainability, the numerous challenges faced in the wake of a world wide pandemic, and the upcoming tendencies of an business in crisis. The panel will consist of Chef Leanne Wong (Top rated Chef, Koko Head Cafe, Pioneer Inn) and will be moderated by Martha Cheng (Foods editor, Honolulu Journal, Writer of THE POKE COOKBOOK).

“HIFF is proud to present this multi-day feast celebrating outstanding culinary cinema from various nations,” says HIFF Executive Director Beckie Stocchetti. “This showcase spotlights the stories of nourishment over and above the plate and reminds us that what we eat (both of those food items and film) matters. As we function to rebuild a sustainable landscape in Hawai’i, HIFF is partnering with nearby eating places and vendors to spotlight our varied and outstanding culinary business here in the islands.”

Latest eating places and vendors consist of Bitesquad, Kamitoku Ramen, Kokua Marketplace and Shokudo. Keep tuned for supplemental partners in the coming months.

The HIFF Showcase Sequence will conclusion the period with VIVE LE CINEMA, a celebration of the newest films by rising filmmakers in French cinema. Pageant Passes and individual ticket buys offered on the internet at hiff.org. Observe HIFF on Instagram and Fb for additional facts.

2021 HIFF Showcase Sequence

CRIOLLO

Uruguay 2020

Director: Pablo Banchero

Documentary Feature

Hawaii Premiere

Elevated on his grandmother’s cooking, celebrated Uruguayan chef Hugo Soca requires us via the heart of his nation’s abundant culinary traditions—from selfmade wine to Pampas barbecue to simmering fish stew and all points in-between—in this mouth-watering, joyous celebration.

Foods LUCK

Japan 2020

Director: Jimon Terakado

Narrative Feature

Intercontinental Premiere

Foods author Yoshito grew up with his solitary mom who ran a yakiniku restaurant after his father died. But due to the fact the closure of the restaurant, he has become estranged from his mom, and from yakiniku. When he is given an assignment to cover yakiniku for a new on the internet journal, it stirs up both of those his enjoy for this grilled meat delicacy, and tricks from his earlier. Directed by actor/comedian and popular food items critic Jimon Terakado, Foods LUCK is a enjoy letter to Japanese grilled beef.

HER Name IS CHEF

United States 2020

Director: Peter Ferriero

Documentary Feature

Hawaii Premiere

Her Name is Chef showcases the stories of six incredibly proficient, inspiring, females of the kitchen. Every share their triumphs in cutting via the clichés of the restaurant business, and explore how they broke down the doors to ‘earn’ the title of Chef. Host Leia Gaccione sits down with Elizabeth Falkner, Fatima Ali, Hillary Sterling, Esther Choi, Juliet Masters, and Caroline Schiff. They open up up their hearts and minds to the planet, leaving no stone unturned.

MEAT THE Long term

Canada 2020

Director: Liz Marshall

Documentary Feature

Hawaii Premiere

Meat the Long term is a well timed documentary about “cultivated meat”, a food items science that grows serious meat from animal cells in a controlled ecosystem, no cost from disease and an infection a revolution in food items creation, proposing a sustainable way to feed the planet in the upcoming – without the have to have to breed, elevate and slaughter animals. At the forefront of this urgent new frontier is cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of Memphis Meats, one particular of the main commence-ups in the discipline. From a meatball which price $eighteen,000 for each pound in 2016 to the world’s 1st “thoroughly clean” hen fillet in 2017 for 50 % the price, the film follows Valeti around a few years as the price of creation continues to plummet, and individuals eye the delivery of this business.

MIO’S COOKBOOK

Japan 2020

Director: Haruki Kadokawa

Narrative Feature

United States Premiere

Early 1800’s Japan. Youthful Osaka-indigenous Mio finds herself estranged from her hometown and her best friend Noe when her mom and dad die tragically. Several years later, after staying taken in by a nearby restaurateur, she finds herself cooking at a soba shop in Edo. It is not long ahead of it will become obvious that she is a masterful chef, promptly making a sensation in city, and unknowingly connecting her with Noe (now a renowned courtesan). Even so, challenges abound for a youthful girl hoping to infiltrate the Edo restaurant scene.

SEXUAL Travel

Japan 2021

Director: Yoshida Kota

Narrative Feature

North American Premiere

3 short stories about sexual intercourse, aphrodisiac food items and key wishes. In section one particular, Natto, named after the fermented soybean dish, wiley food items obsessed Kurita visits designer Enatsu purporting to be in an affair with the latter’s spouse Masumi. In Mapo, named after the Chinese tofu dish, Kurita asks Akane, the girl who used to bully him, to strike him with her auto. And in Ramen, Kurita infiltrates the adulterous affair among married Ikeyama and Momoka.

SHORTS Plan

BLOODLINE

United States | 27M

Administrators: James Q Chan, Santhosh Daniel

An intimate profile by administrators James Q. Chan (Forever, Chinatown) and Santhosh Daniel of Vietnamese-American chef, Tu David Phu, and the evolution of his culinary aesthetic—borne from a bloodline that traces back again via childhood and his family’s unspoken background of war, and established in just a dialogue of impression-building and cultural bias, or how tastes for food items frequently mirror our perceptions, and prejudices, of people today.

FARMING Gradually

United States | 8M

Director: Anthony Newen

Catherine Nguyen is a passionate youthful Vietnamese-American girl farmer who rejects the industrial mono-crop way of increasing food items, and focuses on common and normal means. Her philosophy that we must slow down, create a neighborhood about our food items, and do it organically can enable us are living a happier, much healthier, and additional engaged lifestyle.

CHEF MAVRO’S ALOHA

United States | 27M

Just take a deep dive into the outstanding cooking design and style of the James Beard award winner and one particular of the pioneers of Hawai‘i’s famed pacific culinary movements, Chef Mavro.

Relatives Elements: WISCONSIN

United States | 25M

Valerie Kaneshiro, a combination of Japanese and Indigenous American, was elevated on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, her mom’s ancestral household. Compelled to go away her household at 15, disconnected from her Indian roots she so cherished, Valerie tells a story of reduction and rediscovery and all the lessons discovered though sharing an component to a cultural dish located in Wisconsin and Hawai‘i.

Virtual Panel Discussion

THE SHEROES OF THE Kitchen

Encouraged by the documentary HER Name IS CHEF, which spotlights six undesirable-ass, inspiring, sheroes of the kitchen, this no cost HIFF virtual panel will invite womyn cooks and food items activists from Hawai‘i to focus on their professions in one particular of the nation’s most exciting culinary scenes, as very well as challenges involving gender parity, personnel rights, food items sustainability, the numerous challenges faced in the wake of a world wide pandemic, and the upcoming tendencies of an business in crisis. The panel will consist of Chef Leanne Wong (Top rated Chef, Koko Head Cafe, Pioneer Inn) and will be moderated by Martha Cheng (Foods editor, Honolulu Journal, Writer of THE POKE COOKBOOK).

Take in.Consume.Movie. Fest: June ten-20

VIVE LE CINEMA: July 8-eighteen

Party Listing

What: 2021 HIFF Showcase Sequence (April 15, 2021 – July 31, 2021)

INDIGENOUS LENS driven by Pacific Islanders in Communications: April 15 -25

J-FEST: May thirteen – 23

Take in.Consume.Movie. Fest: June ten-20

VIVE LE CINEMA: July 8-eighteen

Pageant Passes and individual ticket buys offered on the internet at hiff.org.

http://www.HIFF.org

Fb: https://www.fb.com/HIFFHAWAII/

Twitter: @HIFF

Instagram: @HIFFHawaii

Tickets

All Sequence Pass (contains all four series)

Early Bird $120 Standard | $one hundred Member

Typical $a hundred and fifty Standard | $120 Member

Person Sequence

$forty five Typical | $40 Member

Person Tickets

$8 Standard | $6 Member

About Hawai‘i Intercontinental Movie Pageant offered by Halekulani (HIFF)

Proven in 1981, the Hawai‘i Intercontinental Movie Pageant is a non-income group dedicated to the improvement of cultural trade and media in the Pacific Rim. HIFF is a premier intercontinental film function that has won the praise of intercontinental filmmakers, scholars, educators, governments, programmers and film business leaders throughout the globe. HIFF’s programming has two certain mandates: to be a pageant of document for rising films from Asia, the Pacific, and North The united states and to present the top pageant films from about the planet, every year screening films from around forty five nations. HIFF Industry and HIFF VR offers material and panels in the fields of film, music, virtual fact, and new media leisure. These transmedia packages mirror HIFF’s dedication to exhibiting modern creative material coming from the Asia Pacific Rim. Take a look at hiff.org for additional facts.

HIFF’s crucial presenting sponsor is Halekulani Company and major sponsors are: Hawaiian Airlines, and Middle Administration.