The Florida Film Festival 2011 (20th year) started today with film, food and a little gluttony on my part. For the Opening Night Screening the audience was privy to the HBO film Project Nim, which also screened at Sundance. The film is a documentary about a chimp that was raising entirely by humans for the first few years of its life and almost as if he were a human. The film is a combination of a cautionary tale of treating animals as humans as it is a film about the exploitation of animals for human gain. Many people that I talked to very much enjoyed that film and as an added bonus two of the participants in the film were in the audience. Unfortunately because I was a little hungry I did not stay for the post screening Question and Answer session and headed over to the party.
There was samples pf food from many different places in the area. There were booths for K Restaurant, Black Bean Cafe, Ravenous Pig, 4 Rivers, Eden Bar (Enzian Theater), Whole Foods and there was alcohol thanks to Greygoose Vodka. Black Bean had some empanadas, a Spanish version of a Shepard's Pie and plaintain chips. Eden Bar had a pepper tart as well as fried aligator. Everything was fantastic and I am currently full. Tomorrow looks to be another crazy day and I can't wait.
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