CHASING TASTE Set for Sedona International Film Festival

By: Feb. 03, 2015
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Chasing Taste is an official selection of the SEDONA International Film Festival 2015. As part of the film's journey to Sedona, a character from the film, The Down Home Taster, (NYC's #1 food critic as featured in Chasing Taste), has a roster of restaurants slated for his taste buds to review. Using his signature style of blending food criticism with storytelling, The Down Home Taster will take to the streets and tables of Sedona, sampling a cross-section of the culinary fare.

As of press time, The Down Home Taster was set to review Tortas de Fuego, Javeline Cantina, Simon's Hot Dogs, Takashi Japanese Restaurant, Black Cow Café, and Rene At Tlaquepaque. Reviews will be published at www.ChasingTaste.com and www.facebook.com/ChasingTaste between February 23rd and March 1. Fans can follow Chasing Taste on Twitter @ChasingTaste.

"Sedona International Film Festival is a world class event and being invited is a tremendous honor. I look forward to honoring SEDONA by eating my way through town with the Down Home Taster by my side, " says Director/Producer, Sean Gannet. Chasing Taste will screen at Harkins Theater SEDONA 6 on Monday Feb. 23 at 12:20pm and Friday Feb. 27 at 6:00pm. Harkin Theater is located at 2081 W. HIGHWAY 89A?Sedona, AZ 86336.

The picture marks the feature film directorial debut of Sean Gannet. Producers Ashley Wren Collins and Maitely Weismann will also be in attendance. Chasing Taste was the "Best Comedy" winner of the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival and the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival, as well as the "Outstanding Achievement in Editing" (Steven Tyler) Independent Vision Award winner at VISIONFEST 14.

Troma Entertainment's B-movie king and creator of The Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, makes a star cameo in the film, along with country music superstar Phil Vassar, April Wilkner (America's Next Top Model), Joseph R. Gannascoli (The Sopranos), Kevin Brown (30 Rock), and Lynn Cohen (Sex and the City, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Broadway veterans Bill Dawes, Alison Cimmet, Nancy Opel, Chuck Cooper and Rita Gardner also appear in Chasing Taste, along with the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Producing Director Ty Jones, who stars as Bennett Brulee.



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