“It’s way more than just showing up and doing a dinner,” says Todd Perrin, chef at celebrated Newfoundland restaurant Mallard Cottage, who will this year be participating in numerous program offerings at Devour. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Howell chalks the success up to innovative programming, but also due to a sort of confluence that he and Rinaldo couldn’t possibly have anticipated: Over the past five years, the last decade’s increasing cultural interest on food has resulted in a sudden glut of gastronomic films (with an audience built right in) in the same time, attention has focused towards Atlantic Canada as a major culinary and tourist destination, with locales such as the Fogo Island Inn and Raymond’s restaurant in Newfoundland making massive waves in food communities at home and abroad. Devour’s first year as Devour brought in a crowd of 4,000 2014 brought in 6,500 people and this year, Howell says Wolfville is expecting between eight and 10,000. In 2011, Slow Motion drew 1,000 people the next year, it doubled that. “We’re still a festival in its infancy,” Rinaldo says, “and having these directors from elsewhere is really a validation that I never would’ve seen happening so soon.”Īnd the filmfest’s growth has been exponential, too. “We go to the Berlin filmfest every year, but last year, the Berlin filmfest’s director came to us.”
We have film festival organizers coming from the Long Beach Film Festival, The Newport Beach Film Festival, because they’re hearing about it and they want to see what’s driving the success,” Howell says. Article content ‘We go to the Berlin filmfest every year, but last year, the Berlin filmfest’s director came to us’ Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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