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We had a terrific US premiere as the opening night film at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC. The 1100 seat Carolina theater was sold out with lines around the block.Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer and wife Rachel Beaudry flew in from Chicago for the event. When he arrived at the festival, Jacquy created a gorgeous chocolate sculpture, consisting of chocolate film reels and chocolate 35mm film strips! New York Time’s journalist Julia Moskin moderated the panel after the screening. Producers Frazer Pennebaker and Flora Lazar attended Full Frame for their first time.

Our Culinary Cinema screening at the Berlin Film Festival was a dream event. After the screening, the audience crossed the street to a wondrous mirrored tent where we were served a delicious duck en croute dinner cooked by award-winning Chef Lea Linster and pastries by created by chocolatier Josef Zotter. Along for the adventure was our producer Flora Lazar and associate producer Patricia Soussloff, as well as friends of the film, Lee Greenhouse, Jane Balfour and Susan Buckley.

We had the opportunity to show the film in Syria in March at Dox Box Film Festival in Damascus.   We met plenty of French pastry lovers in the Arab world.  The audience was fascinated by the competition and the skills of these amazing chefs.

November 20, 2009 was our international premiere of Kings of Pastry at the historic Tuschinsky Theater at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam.  The art deco theater was filled with over 900 people — it was a wonderful launch for the film.

November 13, 2009 — we had our first screening at the Sheffield Film Festival in England.  The festival’s “Meet Market” which connects TV buyers with producers was responsible for some of our European broadcast sales so we felt happy to go back to where it started with the help of our dear friend and sales agent, Jane Balfour. A wonderful, small festival for those who love documentaries.