Posted in: Blog, Festival News | Posted on October 20, 2011 by Nicole

THANK YOU NEW YORK CITY!

Our deepest thanks to all who attended and contributed to the 5th Annual NYC Food Film Festival.  It was our best Festival yet and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.  From the Opening Night kick-off with Mayor Bloomberg declaring it “Food Film Fest Day” in NYC, to Turtle Burgers, Lobster and Octopus at The Food Porn Party, to Ronnybrook Farms’ make-your-own-sundae bar and Chef Amanda Freitag’s Edible Dirt at the Farm to Film to Table event…There was definitely something for everyone.

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2011 AWARD WINNERS:

• Metro NY Best Food Porn Film Award: Zergut, Dirs. Natasha Subramaniam & Alisa Lapidus
• Burger Maker Best Super-Short Film Award: Changua, Dir. Ximena Sanchez
• Jarlsberg Best Short Film Award: Mistura: The Power of Food, Dir. Patricia Perez
• Sugar in the Raw Best Feature Film Award: Truck Farm, Dir. Ian Cheney
• Google Audience Choice Award: The Big Table, Dir. Ben Niles
• Bloomberg Made In NY Award: The Best Thing I Ever Done, Dir. M. Emily MacKenzie
• 2011 Food Filmmaker of the Year Award: Patricia Perez (Mistura)

In case you missed any of the events this year, here is a glimpse of the amazing films featured…

IN THE MEANTIME…
To commemorate the closing of the 5th Annual NYC Food Film Festival, we’d like to offer you this world premiere from Harvest to Heat and the Le Creuset Film Series. Enjoy “I believe in this Chef”, featuring Chef Derek Wagner of Nick’s in Broadway and farmer Anne Maire Bouthillette of Blackbird Farm in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

And thanks to Le Creuset, one of our Twitter followers has won a Le Creuset 11-Piece Signature Set.  Congratulations to Maria Simonetti!

Follow us now @FoodFilmFest for a chance to win more prizes from our sponsors.