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BERLINALE 2013 Italy

A "slow food" revolution in Berlin

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- The international movement born in resistance to fast food

Slow Food Story is the story of a slow revolution, a revolution born twenty-five years ago to defend a “right to pleasure” which is giving no sign of backing down. A revolution which has its very own founding father, Carlo Petrini, nicknamed Carlìn: the Slow Food and Terra Madre inventor. In 1986, Carlìn founded a gastronomic association called ArciGola, going on to found Slow Food in Paris three years later. The international movement was born as resistance to fast food. Refusing to ever leave Bra, his 27,000 resident township, Petrini gave life to a movement which is now alive in 150 countries, all under the motto of “good, clean and fair” food.

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Slow Food Story is a film by Stefano Sardo which will be presented on February 12 at the Berlin Film Festival in the Kulinarisches Kino section dedicated to food and cinema. Slow Food Story is the story of a handful of people and their great cultural undertaking, with a backdrop of the great changes fallen upon the food industry in the last sixty years, including global agroindustrial themes which are among the most controversial environmental ones of our times.

“I understood straight away that if I wanted to tell the Slow Food story, I would have to tell Petrini’s,” director Stefano Sardo explained. “With him, there is no distinction between his public and private personas, Slow Food is his whole life. Petrini, with uneducated impetuousness and contagious intellectualism, understood before most that food would be one of the most important areas to decide our future.”

Slow Food Story was produced by Indigo Film and Tico Film in association with Element Pictures and the contribution of the Italian ministry for culture’s cinema unit with the support of the Piedmont Doc Film Fund, a regional fund for documentaries, and further support from the MEDIA programme and the Irish Film Board.

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(Translated from Italian)

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