One Pot Film And Food Festival
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One Pot Film and Food festival.
An amazing month of film and events themed and inspired by the idea of food:
food politics food pleasure food excess food dearth
If you are inspired by film and excited by food then the Star and Shadow's One Pot Festival is the place to be.
The One Pot symbolises the universal theme that food connects us all.
The earth is the pot from which we are nourished.
For a month the Star and Shadow Cinema represents in microcosm the Pot
The festival will feature a mouth watering range of films - Animations - Dramas - Documentaries
The films sometimes screen by themselves but mostly inform and stimulate other events:
music – debates – discussions – performances - dance
Come and feed from the Pot
One Pot for ALL
Star and Shadow appreciates the award of a £500 grant from the Cooperative Community Fund towards the cost of promoting this festival.
Films in the One Pot Film And Food Festival:
05
Film: Ratatouille
5 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An animation film by Pixar that goes down a treat with audiences of all ages. The story of Remy the rat, with whose remarkable culinary skills save a restaurant and provoke envy. A tale of aspiration and acheivment. A franco- american dream packed into a rat(atouille).
09
Film: Food Inc.
9 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
The film documentary you have to see if you want to understand the nature of agri-business and the implications the industrialisation of farming have for our planet. Followed by discussion.
12
Film: The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover (1989)
12 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Perhaps the British Art House movie of the 20th century. Greenaway probes in outrageous detail the relations of food to power, sex, revenge and death in its many forms.
15
Film: The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
15 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
16
Film: More Than Honey
16 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An extraordinary journey into the depths of the bee hive, across different cultures, to understand something of the nature of bees and their importance. Followed by the chance to talk about and discuss Bees and Honey with local Bee Keepers. Tickets: £5 and £3.50
19
Film: Distant Thunder (Ashami Sanke)
19 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Ray's film about the 1943 famine, caused by the British exporting grain from Bengal. Ray's approach to famine is not to exploit images, but rather to engage the audience in an intensive series of indicators of despair: the slow ratcheting up of the price of staple foods. Followed by discussion on The Right to Food.
22
Film: Nothing Like Chocolate
22 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A mythbusting and hopeful exploration of the massive and often highly exploitative cocoa industry. Bhavnani introduces us to Mott Green an anarchist choclatier whose passions encouraged him to start a workers co-op and take on the might of the chocolate industry. Meet NGOs farmers and families facing realities in Cote d'Ivoire including child slave labour and questions like how fair is Fairtrade?
23
Film: Kings Of Pastry
23 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Pennebaker is best known in the UK for his Dylan documantary, Don't Look Back. Here turns his eyes to pastry chefs competing in France to be King Patissier. Three days of cream, chocolate butter and frustration.
26
Film: Tampopo
26 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An outrageous spoof on the Samurai culture which uses the location of Tampopo's noodle bar to introduce a bizarre gathering of different talents to trigger a series of comic vignettes whose sole unifying theme is the focus on food.
30
Film: Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
30 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Les Blank's ecstatic paean to the joys of garlic and all the goodness it promotes under the sun. If you were ever moved by a clove of garlic come and rejoice. Plus Adrin Neatrour's Last Kill (UK 2004; 40 mins) A meditation on the last days of an old itinerant slaughterer.