CHASING TASTE to Screen Next Week at New Filmmakers New York

Award-winning indie film CHASING TASTE will screen at the Anthology Film Archives at 32 Second Avenue in Manhattan as part of New Filmmakers New York on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 7:15pm. Tickets are just $6 and available at the box office beginning at 5:30pm that day.

CHASING TASTE is the "Best Comedy" winner at the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival and the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival, as well as the "Outstanding Achievement in Editing" (Steven Tyler) Independent Vision Award winner of VISIONFEST 14. CHASING TASTE was produced by Ashley Wren Collins, Maitely Weismann and Sean Gannet. It screened at the Sedona International Film Festival 2015, the Seoul International Food Film Festival 2015, and the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema 2015. Ashley Wren Collins, leading man Kirk McGee and screenwriter Lori Fischer, along with Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment, will be present at the Q&A following the screening.

CHASING TASTE tells the story of Chase Guidry (Kirk McGee), a down-and-out novelist who is transformed overnight into NYC's next big food critic. On the cusp of fame and fortune, the writer turned food critic suddenly loses his sense of taste and smell in a freak accident, forcing him to rely on a team of super "smellers" and tasters to help him fake his reviews. The picture also marks the feature film directorial debut of Sean Gannet.

Producer Ashley Wren Collins co-wrote Produce Your Own Damn Movie! (Focal Press, 2009) with Troma Entertainment's B-movie king and creator of The Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, who makes a star cameo in the film, along with country music superstar Phil Vassar, April Wilkner (America's Next Top Model), Joseph R. Gannascoli (The Sopranos), Kevin Brown (30 Rock), and Lynn Cohen (Sex and the City, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Broadway veterans Bill Dawes, Alison Cimmet, Nancy Opel, Chuck Cooper and Rita Gardner also appear in CHASING TASTE, along with the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Producing Director Ty Jones, who stars as Bennett Brulee.

CHASING TASTE is unique in that a cast and crew were assembled and locations were set before the script was penned. "When this process began, I didn't even know I'd be directing a romantic comedy. Every member of our team put their trust in each other; the result is a celebration," says Sean Gannet.

Follow CHASING TASTE on Twitter @ChasingTaste and Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChasingTaste. Watch the trailer and more at www.chasingtastethemovie.com.