Kevin Longa's award-winning international food documentary series 'Taste' recently launched its Kickstarter campaign.
Taste with Kevin Longa
The crowd-funding campaign has already raised over $23,000 surpassing its original goal of $14,500.
Longa's "Taste" series explores a side of food that most food-and-travel shows rarely exhibit. The biggest difference is that Longa focuses more on the people who make our food, rather than the food itself.
Each 4-minute, web-based episode features a different story about a food entrepreneur - from bakers to chefs to farmers. Filmmaker Kevin Longa created the campaign to fund post-production for the "Taste: Europe" series.
After graduating from UCLA, Longa traveled across Asia, Europe and the Americas with his camera. He filmed culinary entrepreneurs such as a man who ditched his job at IBM to resurrect the lost art of snail (escargot) farming in Vienna and a San Francisco chef who changes a young criminal's life through cooking. Longa has eight shortfilms lined up for his "Taste: Europe" series.
While "Taste" aims to set itself apart from traditional food TV and food advocacy documentaries, Longa respects and draws inspiration from food storytellers who came before him.
According to PBS's Joanne Weir (Cooking Confidence), she declares "Taste" is incredible filmmaking! This kid has talent!"
And food advocate/documentarian Raj Patel (A Place at the Table, 2010) says "Kevin is a rare talent - a filmmaker ready to take risks and make the world right under our noses seem fresh and new."
See more information about TASTE at their Kickstarter Campaign: http://tastewithkevin.com/kspage
SOURCE: Kevin Longa
Source: Kevin Longa kickstarts food docu-series 'Taste'
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