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SWAG: Win A Pair Of Tickets To Michelin-Starred Foodie Film “Step Up To The Plate”

The VIFF is showing Step Up To The Plate this weekend at the Vancity Theatre and we have a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for the Friday and Sunday evening screenings. If you dig food, you’ll want to get in on this…

This superb documentary is more than just another mouth-watering film about food (though it is certainly that). Director Paul Lacoste spent months with 3-star Michelin chef Michel Bras and his grown son Sebastien as the latter prepared to take over the operation of the family business. It is a role for which he has been preparing his whole lifetime, but can he step out of his famous father’s shadow to create a menu that honours tradition while expressing his own personality?

In contrast to the ’against-the-clock’ tropes of the Food Network, Lacoste emphasizes how a culinary artist creates original dishes over hours, days and weeks, ruminating on the balance and harmonics of the ingredients, refining and rethinking the plate until it’s ready to be shared. Exquisitely photographed and edited, this beautiful film takes us inside the mind of an innovative young chef at the outset of his career and the family ties that both inspire and inhibit him.

To enter to win, simply tweet the following: I’m fixing to win two @VIFFest tickets to foodie film Step Up To The Plate via @scoutmagazine http://wp.me/plxHU-fH2

The winners – one for Friday and one for Sunday – will be chosen at random and announced on Twitter tomorrow. Good luck!