The Food Film Festival to Present the World Premiere of ANTHONY BOURDAIN PARTS UNKNOWN / LOWER EAST SIDE

The Food Film Festival™ returns to New York City for its 12th straight year! The five-day Festival will feature a series of events where food and film lovers get to Taste What They See on the Screen...right in their seats! At each event, guests are served the food from the films as they watch on the screen in the Festival theatre. That's always followed by an official Festival After-Party with more food, drinks and fun, served up by chefs and restaurants from New York City and beyond.

This year, the Festival kicks off with the World Premiere of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown / Lower East Side presented by CNN Original Series. The events continue with an exclusive VIP Eat & Greet with Chefs Brad Farmerie + Nicole Gajadhar for VIP Passholders only. Friday night celebrates many dishes of New York City's cuisine in Edible Adventures #16: Stories of New York. Saturday's festivities feature the magic of cooking meat over fire at Fire and Smoke: Texas BBQ and Beyond, bringing together Black's BBQ from Texas, Izzy's Smokehouse from Brooklyn and more. Finally, the Festival closes on Sunday with All You Need is Brunch!

"Without fail, every year the quality of food filmmaking goes up. Our audiences are in for quite a treat this year!"
-George Motz, Food Film Fest Director

"We are truly honored that CNN has chosen to world premiere this extraordinary Parts Unknown episode at The Food Film Festival. We look forward to celebrating the life of television's greatest storyteller with others who love him as much as we do."
- Seth Unger, Food Film Fest Executive Producer

TICKETING INFORMATION
All Tickets and VIP Passes are all-inclusive of food, drink, theatre-seating
and Festival After-Party access.
Event tickets are on sale now for 20% off for 24 hours at thefoodfilmfest.com.

VIP FESTIVAL-WIDE PASSES
A limited number of VIP Festival-Wide Passes are available for $449. Passes are all-inclusive of food, drink, theatre-seating and both Pre-Party and After-Party access whenever applicable. The reception at Saxon + Parole on 10/25 is exclusively open to VIP Festival-Wide Pass Holders.

OFFICIAL EVENTS OF THE FOOD FILM FESTIVAL™

The World Premiere of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown / Lower East Side presented by CNN Original Series
Wednesday, October 24
Cocktails 6:00 pm | Program 7:00 pm | After-Party 8:00 pm
$250
100% of proceeds from the night's event will be donated to the Bronx Letters Foundation, a charity ardently supported by Anthony Bourdain.
Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street
New York, NY 10002

The episode follows Bourdain on a personal journey through this formerly bohemian New York City neighborhood, as he meets, shares meals and reflects with music, film and art trailblazers including Richard Hell, Deborah HARRY and Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, Fab 5 Freddy, Danny Fields, Amos Poe, Jim Jarmusch, Kembra Pfahler, John Lurie, Clayton Patterson and Harley Flanagan, whose collective cultural impact in the 1970's and '80's has sustained through the decades.

VIP Eat & Greet Featuring Chefs Brad Farmerie + Nicole Gajadhar
Thursday, October 25
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
*VIP Festival-Wide Pass Holder Access Only*
Saxon + Parole
316 Bowery
New York, NY 10012

Join us for an exclusive Eat & Greet with Saxon + Parole Chefs Brad Farmerie and Chef Nicole Gajadhar. Enjoy beer, wine, cocktails, films and tastes from the restaurant.
Films: Go Shuck Yourself, Fun with Pig, and more

Edible Adventure #16: Stories of New York
Friday, October 26
VIP Pre-Party 6:15 pm | GA Doors 7:00 pm
GA $75 | VIP $100
AMC EMPIRE 25 in Times Square
234 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036

An eclectic mix of foods and films made here in New York City.
Films: A New York Bagel, Chikarashi: Sustainable, Chef-Driven Poke Bowl, Get Blown!, The Rest of Your Life, and Why the Jamaican Beef Patty is a New York Icon

Fire and Smoke: Texas BBQ and Beyond
Saturday, October 27
VIP Pre-Party at 6:15 pm | GA Doors 7:00pm
GA $100 | VIP $125
AMC EMPIRE 25
234 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036

Meet the pitmasters responsible for bringing Central Texas Style BBQ to new spaces and chefs who can harness smokey goodness of fire-roasted meats. Presenting world famous brisket from renowned Kent and Barrett Black of The Original Black's BBQ in Austin, Texas, and more.
Films: D'Abruzzo: The Meat, Fat, Meat, Fat, Meat, Fat Lamb Skewers of Abruzzo, Fire, Holy Smoked, Melt. A Smoking Story, No Such Thing as Bad Pie, and The Science of Smoked Brisket

All You Need is Brunch!
Sunday, October 28
12:00 pm
$45
AMC EMPIRE 25 in Times Square
234 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Come for the carbs featured in My Life in Sourdough, stay for the assembly of offerings from Joseph's Machines, with Breads Bakery and many more brunch favorites.
Films: EAT ART, Food Films, How to make Crispy Fish Fingers, Magical Snack Time, The Lunch Feeder

NON-PROFIT BENEFICIARY
The Food Film Festival is proud to announce the return of our non-profit beneficiary, the Billion Oyster Project. The mission of Billion Oyster Project is to restore oyster reefs to the New York Harbor through public education initiatives. Working together with local communities, Billion Oyster Project aims to plant 1 billion oysters in New York Harbor by the year 2035.
The Food Film Festival is also honored to announce that 100% of proceeds from opening night will be donated to the Bronx Letters Foundation, a charity ardently supported by Anthony Bourdain.

SPONSORS
The Food Film Festival is proud to announce its official sponsors for 2018, including In The Raw®, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The New York Distilling Company, CNN Original Series,
Schweid & Sons®, Night Kitchen Brooklyn, and Mann Packing, Co., Inc.


ABOUT THE FOOD FILM FESTIVAL
The Food Film Festival™, a multisensory food and film experience based in New York City, is the only festival in the world where guests get to Taste What They See on the Screen...right in their seats! Over the course of 12 years, the Festival has hosted more than 30,000 guests from New York City to Charleston to Copenhagen. Past events include a screening of The Mud and The Blood followed by an authentic Lowcountry Oyster Roast on a rooftop in Brooklyn with 15,000 South Carolina oysters, and the World Premiere of New York Cooks for Tohoku paired with dishes from Michelin Starred Chefs Boulud, Bouley, Romano, Telepan and Tadashi Ono. In 2012, the I [heart] Japan event featured Ramen Dreams star and Ramen Burger creator, Chef Keizo Shimamoto, who cooked and served his legendary ramen in the U.S. for the 1st time ever.
Created by America's Hamburger Expert, Author and Food Filmmaker George Motz, The Food Film Festival™ is a competitive film festival and Official Selections are reviewed by a judging panel comprised of esteemed members of the food and film communities. Awards are presented in 7 categories including: Best Super-Short Film, Best Short Film, Best Feature Film, Best FOOD PORN Film, The Audience Choice Award, The Made in New York Award, The Food Filmmaker of the Year Award and The Film Foodmaker of the Year Award.
The Food Film Festival™ hosts its flagship series of events in New York City every October and has curated and produced multiple events around the country. All Festival events benefit important non-profit organizations, such as the Food Bank For New York City, The Billion Oyster Project, The Good Food Project and GrowFood Carolina.