Florida Film Festival 2019 - April12th-21st at Enzian Theater in Maitland

The 28th Annual Florida Film Festival is coming up April 12th-21st at the Enzian Theater in Maitland.

Through ten days of 180+ films and first-class events, film lovers mingle with filmmakers and celebrities over hand-crafted cocktails and a delicious menu at Eden Bar and inside Enzian Theater.

This year there are 3 food related films and a number of parties and food related events worth attending.

Opening Night Party

Friday, April 12 8:30PM–1:00AM Location: Eden Bar at Enzian

8:30PM: Party starts for “Party Only” ticket holders
1AM: Event Ends

Celebrate opening night of the 2019 Florida Film Festival with a thrilling film premiere. Sample food and cocktails from your favorite local spots and an open bar at Eden Bar—a moveable feast where you can mingle and celebrate with all the folks who will be your new best friends for the next ten days. Eat, drink, be merry, and discuss all the films you cannot wait to see at the festival ahead. This legendary party launches a non-stop, fun-filled, ten-day celebration of Film, Food, and Friends.


Participating restaurants, bars, and select vendors include:

Bubbalou’s Bodacious BBQ

Cuisiniers

La Empanada

Mediterranean Street Food By Shishco

MidiCi – THE NEAPOLITAN PIZZA COMPANY

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Outpost Neighborhood Kitchen

Roque Pub

The Sanctum Café

Sierra Nevada, Co.

Terrapin Beer Co.

Timeline:

6:30PM: Theater doors open for first screening of film at Enzian (for Opening Night Film and Party ticket holders)

7:15PM: Movie starts at Enzian

8:00PM: Second screening of film takes place from 8-10:10PM at Regal A (for Film Only ticket holders)

8:30PM: Party starts (for Party Only ticket holders)

1AM: Event Ends



Tickets:

Film & Party ticket $125

Party Only ticket $100

Film Only tickets $25 for second screening in Regal at 8PM

Here's a video from last years party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTzuGDIliM



Below are the food related films:

Food Film

Chef’s Diaries: Scotland

Sun, 4-14, 11:30 am
Directed by: Laura Otálora
UK/Scotland, 2019, 75m
English/Spanish/Catalan
North American Premiere

Haggis? The word alone can make one’s stomach turn! Yet this beautiful documentary draws us in as it follows the three fascinating Roca brother-chefs from El Celler de Can Roca (named world’s best restaurant in 2013 and 2015) on their inspired journey through the northernmost land of the British Isles, Scotland—haggis and all. To understand the territory, its products, and its artisans, the brothers explore whiskey, smoked haddock, Aberdeen angus, seaweed, razor clams, fly fishing, cheese, herbs hunting, strawberries, and more. In their pursuit, they create a love song to an astonishing cuisine that is yet to be discovered and savored. Scotland is beautiful.  Brothers Joan, Jordi, and Josep, and their team share stories of little-known people and products, and of a possible culinary revolution. In the end, they return home to Spain to create an ode to Scotland—a spectacular meal interpreting and celebrating all they have come to know and love.

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Ramen Shop

Sat, 4-13, 1:30 pm  

Trailer:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8PpdeSXRQ
Directed by: Eric Khoo
Singapore/Japan/France, 2018, 89m
Japanese/English/Mandarin

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food,” said George Bernard Shaw. Orphaned when his unhappy father dies suddenly, a dreamy young ramen chef in Japan begins a culinary odyssey to learn about his family and how to make the beloved pork rib soup of his childhood. Masato heads to Singapore for the first time since he was ten and discovers its incredible food culture with the help of his pal and food blogger Miki. With her, he deciphers his mother’s diary, finds his wonderful Uncle Wee (who teaches him the family’s famed soup), and meets his formidable grandmother, Madam Lee. Through it all, the loving preparation of food unites and enlightens. With flashbacks to his parents’ salad days and lessons in Japanese-Chinese antipathy, the mouth-watering Ramen Shop acknowledges good food as a universal language.  Beautiful, delicious, and delightful, it is truly “food for the heart and soul.”
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Spotlight Film

The Biggest Little Farm

Monday, April 15, 2019, 7:00PM
Saturday, April 20, 2019, 10:30AM

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RY27ZEdfg

 

Directed by: John Chester
USA, 2018, 91m

A testament to the immense complexity of nature, The Biggest Little Farm renders a heartfelt portrait of a Los Angeles couple (and their beloved dog) who flee the stress of LA for a new life managing a farm just north of the city limits in the foothills of Ventura County. Director/cinematographer John Chester and his food blogger wife Molly created Apricot Lane Farms to reconnect with nature and live an eco-friendly, sustainable lifestyle. Chronicling eight years of daunting work and outsize idealism—including planting 10,000 orchard trees and over 200 crops and bringing in animals of every kind—this unforgettable film joyously recounts the struggles, successes, and wild twists and turns of their inspirational endeavor. Putting his camera skills to good use in the service of rural California’s breathtaking natural splendor, Chester creates an autobiographical scrapbook like no other. What emerges is a life-affirming tale of one family who followed their hearts and turned their dreams of harmony into a flourishing, sustainable reality.