Now into its fourth year, the Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival will be hosted once again in Nelson. This year's festival of food documentary films expands to 12 films over 5 days at 5 venues. The schedule for 2016 is spread out between October 26 and November 12 – making it much easier for lovers of good food and drink to attend more events.
The event was founded in 2012 by food journalist Jon Steinman of Deconstructing Dinner. Steinman curates the films for each Festival.
Launching the Fest on October 26 at the Civic Theatre is Racing Extinction – from the Academy Award winning filmmakers of The Cove. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world’s most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction, Racing Extinction reveals stunning, never-before seen images that truly change the way we see the world. The film has received one Academy Award nomination and one Emmy nomination. Steinman calls the film “one of the most important of our time.” Two short films from Anna Lappe's Real Food Media Awards will round out the evening.
Other films to watch out for this year are That Sugar Film, Caffeinated, Seeds of Time, Sour Grapes, The Benevolent Butcher, Growing Local, The Market Gardener's Toolkit, Shuckers and The Oyster Men.
The 2016 Festival also features quite a few live music acts including Dawna McLennan (harp) and Jessica Doerner (cello), jazz duo Clinton Swanson and Rob Fahie, and Argenta's Rodman & Spring.
A Festival tradition returns with Brent the Oyster Man who will once again offer up his 2-buck-a-shuck oyster bar at the closing party on November 12 at the Spirit Bar. Local dinner selections including Kaslo Sourdough Pasta, an NBC beer sample, great oyster films and live music will make for a fun and entertaining evening.
Check out the Festival Guide for showtimes and tickets on our website.
2016 Feature-Length Film Summaries
RACING EXTINCTION (USA, 2015, 94min) – Oscar-winning Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Wednesday, Oct 26, 7:00 p.m.