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WENDY ELLIOTT: Devour! The Food Film Fest is incredibly diverse

The 16th annual Devour! The Food Film Fest had a theme as wide as the ocean this year. The focus was on the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic Seaboard.

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The world’s largest food film festival celebrated three coasts and a shared sea by bringing chefs, filmmakers, and coastal food experts from across Canada to Wolfville for a weeklong celebration.

The festival featured 50 new films and 60 events. Attendance numbers were good.

At the start, I was captivated by the documentary that was served up to school groups over two days. With Grace profiled a Kenyan teenager whose farm family coped with poverty and the impact of climate change.

Devour! The Food Film Fest is never dull, that’s for sure. Mostly, I take in the films.

Emmy Award-winning director Pete Muller opened with his film Bucks Harbor. Set along the rugged coast of Downeast Maine, there are generations of lobster fishermen navigating masculinity, family, and survival in changing coastal communities. Such characters, all of them, it was fascinating to hear the back story.

During one of the panels, Muller mentioned the danger fishermen face.

“It can go sideways fast. I don’t really like the ocean. It reminds me of my (mercurial) mother.”

He and fellow director Kelly Liscomb noted that the film........

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