Kingussie’s Food on Film festival will be rolling into town across seven venues on the first weekend of February 2012 for four days of fabulous food and films as more community groups and businesses join the annual festivities for the fifth year running.

The Iona Gallery will launch the event with the opening of a Food Art Exhibition that will be open throughout the festival. Local artists will be getting their inspiration from a documentary film that will be screened that night – “The Garden” – which follows the controversial development of a community garden in down town Los Angeles.

Once again there will be a glamorous Oscar Night at the High School on the Friday night. It will feature the premiere of a film project called “Come Dine With Me Through Time” which has been filmed by High School students across the Highlands with the Phoenix Film Academy. The Kingussie group has been working closely with the Highland Folk Museum to recreate historically accurate food. There will also be a short film competition with a Film Industry panel of judges and fabulous prizes.  At the Primary School on the Saturday afternoon there will be a childrens’ matinee screening of the original 1971 “Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory” .

New to the festival is Kingussie’s recently established Ruthven Road Picturehouse at  The Silverfjord Hotel which will show international foodie films on the Friday and Sunday nights with the option of a meal to match beforehand.  Also new to Food on Film is the Sunday Carvery Cinema at The Duke of Gordon where filmgoers can fill up with a delicious roast dinner and then watch a classic Charlie Chaplin film “The Gold Rush” where Charlie has to improvise a meal from nothing but an old boot!

The Community Centre, Talla Nan Ros, will host two fabulous feature films for their Scottish Premieres on Saturday afternoon and evening, both events will have themed food and music to go with the films – more details will be announced soon.

The centrepiece of the festival – The Cairngorms Food Hall  – will be expanding into the large Sprts Hall at The Badenoch Centre where it will be bigger and better than ever before! Organiser Lydie Bocquillon said  “The only criticism we had from festival goers last year was that the Food Hall was too crowded – which we saw as a good problem to have. This time there will be plenty of room both for more customers and more stalls. There are already several new food producers who are excited about joining us, and there will be more cooking demonstrations, as well as whisky tasting and the results of our Cooking Challenge. I’m really looking forward to it, it’s going to be great!”

Tickets will be on sale from mid January from the new Box Office on the High Street hosted by Caberfeidh Horizons. For more information and news about films, VIP guests and more, visit the website and Facebook pages which will be regularly updated, or follow developments on Twitter.

FOOD ON FILM – February 2^nd -5^th 2012

www.kingussiefoodonfilm.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/KingussieFoodonFilm

Twitter –  @FoodOnFilm

Source: Helen Graham (festival co-ordinator)