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EXCLUSIVE: Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskovitz had a batch of gall going to Gaul. The American cheesemonger group retired to dethrone nan French astatine their Mondial du Fromage, nan Olympics of Cheese, by a captaining an upstart U.S. team. Sacré bleu cheese!
This pungent communicative is told successful nan award-winning documentary The Big Cheese, directed by Sara Joe Wolansky. Obscured Releasing coming announced it has acquired North American distribution authorities to nan movie pinch plans for a constricted theatrical merchandise successful August earlier a VOD level debut later this year.
“In Europe, food mongering is simply a vaunted, prestigious career,” notes a release. “In America, it often intends moving minimum costs astatine a market counter. Adam ‘Mr. Moo’ Moskowitz is attempting to alteration nan measurement American cheesemongers are seen by coaching a squad of U.S. competitors to triumph astatine nan Mondial du Fromage, nan ‘Olympics of Cheese,’ successful France. The Big Cheese follows these underdogs arsenic they conflict taste clashes, individual struggles, and pouring food while training for nan eventual food competition.”
The Big Cheese premiered past November astatine DOC NYC, wherever it earned runner-up for nan Audience Award. Since then, it has won nan Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary astatine nan Cleveland International Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature astatine nan Beloit International Film Festival, Best Director Award astatine nan Phoenix International Film Festival, and conscionable a fewer days ago, nan Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision, presented By Women In Film Seattle astatine nan Seattle International Film Festival. The Big Cheese has besides screened astatine IFFBoston, nan Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and more.
“What we emotion astir The Big Cheese is that it gives nan assemblage overmuch much than immoderate competition-focused documentary we’ve ever seen,” said Obscured Releasing’s RJ Millard and Bill Guentzler. “Sara Joe Wolansky’s movie connects america to nan personalities, starting pinch ‘Mr. Moo,’ highlights nan thrust each cheesemonger has to go nan best, and takes america wrong nan precocious stakes world of nan Mondial du Fromage. And, of course, we each emotion cheese.”
In a statement, head Sara Joe Wolansky said, “I americium beyond excited to beryllium partnering pinch Obscured Releasing to bring our optimistic and highly cheesy movie retired into nan world. I cognize it’s successful bully hands pinch a squad that gets what makes our communicative of passion and redemption special… and is arsenic committed to making group crave cheese.”
The Big Cheese is simply a position of Shhh: It Happens, Infinite Films, and Fanny Pack Films, successful relation pinch Deep Cut. The acquisition woody was negotiated by Adam Moskowitz, Sara Joe Wolansky, and James Smith connected behalf of nan accumulation and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard connected behalf of Obscured Releasing.
“The Big Cheese is astir mavericks successful cheesemongering truthful it makes cleanable consciousness to partner pinch nan mavericks of distribution,” commented Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz. “In nan accelerated changing world of entertainment, I want to activity pinch nan individuals that attraction astir movie makers, storytelling and Obscured people.”
The Big Cheese is directed by Sara Joe Wolansky and produced by Sara Joe Wolansky and James A. Smith. Executive producers are Adam Moskowitz, James P. O’Shaughnessy, Joe Beshenkovsky, and Stacey Reiss.
“Almost 50 years ago, successful Paris, France, ‘The Judgement of Paris’ upended nan world of wine,” Wolansky writes successful a director’s statement. “To nan world’s awesome astonishment – nan judges, among nan champion vino tasters successful France – chose a California vino successful unsighted sensation tests complete France for some nan reddish and achromatic flights. The consequence dethroned Europe’s uncontested supremacy complete awesome wine. Sommeliers each astir nan world could urge a California cabernet pinch confidence.
“That aforesaid infinitesimal for food is here. In nan past 10 years, artisanal cheeses person go a booming portion of nan $35 cardinal U.S. food market, and person begun to gain worldwide renown and respect. Yet while cheesemongers successful Europe are hired successful Michelin prima restaurants and to cater royal functions, cheesemongers successful America mostly toil down market counters making minimum wage. In nan U.S. today, cheesemongering is simply a profession for a definite type of nutrient manufacture misfit – an artist, a edifice drop-out, a recovering addict, a rebel, aliases an different mislaid psyche who charts an unconventional way into nan American food world.
“American food and nan mongers that service it merit our deepest respect. The world conscionable doesn’t recognize it yet.”
Wolansky continues, “I’ve spent complete 3 years eating an ungodly magnitude of cheese. (Alp Blossom and Challerhocker are 2 of my favorites!) and immersing myself successful nan group who dress up nan food world.
“The cheesemongers featured successful this task – pinch stories spanning from sobriety to financial hardship, POC mongers looking for inclusion to professionals moving extracurricular nan container – person enviably recovered their intent and organization successful this overseas world. Finding occurrence would mean a chance to beryllium taken seriously, to summation financial security, and beryllium to nan naysayers that it was worthy dropping everything to prosecute this passion.
“I’ve dedicated myself to presenting quirky, stranger-than-fiction stories pinch joke and heart; respective of my short documentaries have, successful fact, been programmed successful nan ‘Comedy’ sections of movie festivals before. Developing my first characteristic film, I recovered myself yearning for thing that could beryllium a ray successful nan darkness; that would some make group laughter and reinvent nan measurement we spot food successful America.”
