Name of Film: American DumplingScreening: Friday - July 23 at 3:00pm
Venue: Catherine Hickman Theater
Name and Position of Filmmakers:
Eileen Nelson-Director,
Darrell Hanzalik & Eileen Nelson-producers
Total Runtime: 81 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Premiere Status: Florida Premiere
Synopsis:
American Dumpling is a feature-length documentary about many diverse
cultures and the one food they have in common-dumplings. It presents
itself as a simple story of flour, water and salt, and how these
ingredients bind us together in our search for "comfort food". It is a
movie that focuses not on our differences, but on what binds us
together as a society, regardless of our race, gender or age. The
melting pot of America is the melting pot of the dumpling, and
although each cook has his own unique little spin he puts in the
recipe, it still boils down to three ingredients that are absolutely
necessary-flour, water and salt.
Website: http://www.americandumplingthemovie.com
Country of Production: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Date of Completion: 08/01/2008
Other Festivals:
Action on Film Film Festival 2009, Radar Hamburg Film Film 2009,
Chasama Film Festival 2009, International Film Festival Ireland 2009,
The indie Fest 2009, Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2009, Sonoma Film
Festival 2010, Kansas City Film Festival 2010
Awards:
Alan J. Bailer Award of Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking 2009, The
Indie Fest Award of Merit 2009, Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
Honorable Mention 2009
The making of the food dumplings may have the power to bring neighborhoods together is an axiom for thought, conversation functions as an added ingredient in the mix, brought together by proper proportions of flour, salt, and water; feeds the weightier need of being loved.
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