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We are very pleased to announce that we won Best Feature Length Documentary film at the 2024 Taste Awards, Los Angeles, CA

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:

Jarvis Conservatory, Napa. September 21st, 2024. Two screenings – 4pm and 7pm. With special guests in attendence: director Gregory Bezat, producer Gary Meyer, Kennedy Golden, M.F.K. Fisher’s daughter and Antonio Allegra, a close friend of Mary Francis who is an award-winning wine, food, and travel writer whose books include Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guide. Clark Wolf is one of America’s top restaurant consultants and will be hosting our event. He is also a writer, speaker and host for television and radio who spent many wonderful hours with M.F.K. Fisher.

Tickets at: http://jarvisconservatory.com/artfilms.html

Partnering with us for the screenings at the Jarvis Conservatory is the Napa Valley Historical Society.

PAST SCREENINGS:

AVFilm in Healdsburg screening on April 30 at 5:30pm

Tickets at: https://avfilmpresents.org/show/savor-the-night-with-m-f-k-fisher-the-art-of-eating/

Three-course dinner, local wines from Cartograph Wines, and the screening are included in the ticket price.

Tuesdays are for tasting. Taking a page from M.F.K.’s writing, we will gather for some of the things that make us most human: food, conversation, stories, and quality time. Kick off the evening with a deeper look at the woman behind the magic, hear from the filmmakers, and then tuck in for a simple, sensuous French meal from Chef Marc-Henri of Maison Porcella in Lo & Behold’s homey setting.

Director Gregory Bezat, Chef Kyle Connaughton (SingleThread), food writers Jerry Di Vecchio and Michele Anna Jordan, will be in attendance.

5:30PM – Feature film at Longboard Vineyards
7:30PM – Dinner at Lo & Behold from Chef Marc-Henri of Maison Porcella

Three-course dinner, local wines from Cartograph Wines, and the screening are included in the ticket priceup now to get our Wednesday newsletter with special images not We are proud to have played at these Film Festivals and Events:

Fairhope Film Festival, Fairhope, Alabama – BEST FILM in Festival Award

Glimmerglass Film Days, Cooperstown, NY

Festival Internacional Cine de Morelia, Mexico

Glen Ellen Historical Society Fundraiser

BIOGRAFILM Festival, European Premier Bologna, Italy. Read the review here

Filmfest DC Washington DC Premier

Sonoma International Film Festival

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Mill Valley Film Festival in association with San Francisco Litquake.

Devour! Nova Scotia, Canada

Restaurant Week, Newport, Rhode Island

Indie Memphis Film Festival

Last House Luncheon
Greg Bezat, Gary Meyer, Kennedy Golden, and Clark Wolf joined food writer Marion Nestle for at Fisher’s Last House on the Audubon Canyon Ranch Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen.

INTERVIEWS

Alice Waters

“I’ve admired many women. They all have what Mary Frances had, which is a kind of confidence in herself to live life the way she wanted.”

Jacques Pepin

“Mary Frances was way ahead of her time, talking about food in a way that people had not done before.”

Anne Lamott

“Are you even here for your one precious life? And if so, what are we going to have for lunch?”

Ruth Reichl

“She’s telling you to pay attention to every sense and she does it in a very feminine way.”

Jerry Di Vecchio

“She has the gift of putting her feelings in your heart.”

Dominica Rice-Cisneros

“Her writing was beyond any one generation. For me it was eye opening.”

John Ash

“If it hadn’t been for James Beard and Julia Child and M.F.K. Fisher and Jacques Pepin, I don’t know where American Cuisine would be today.”

Tanya Holland

“When I think about M.F.K. Fisher, she’s the antithesis of what’s happening in the food world today, where everything is so competitive — it’s more impersonal.”