Billionaire TWITCH founder Justin Kan presents a TASTE AWARD
The TASTE AWARDS have always had personalities, stars and leaders as part of the event. This includes not just winners and nominees, but also the Presenters.
When Justin Kan presented this award he was famous for Justin.TV, which chronicled in a streaming feed every moment of his life.
Now he is known for selling his firm, Twitch, to Amazon for over $1 Billion, an example of a real life unicorn.
Below, The Billionaire founder of Twitch and Justin.TV, Justin Kan presents the Best Film or Documentary award at the very TASTE AWARDS. Justin is joined in this video by food and TV host Leslie Sbrocco.
The TASTE AWARDS celebrate the year’s best in food, fashion, and lifestyle programs on television, in film, online and on radio.
Marisa Churchill stars in new international Baking series
Marisa Churchill, a long-time celebrity awards presenter for the TASTE AWARDS, as well as food television star from shows like “Top Chef”, is starring in a new baking series with Fage Greek yogurt.
The series is called “MY SWEEΤ & SKINNY LIFE.”
Says Marisa, “We filmed 20 episodes geared towards the Greek-American market in the US and also the Greek market,. The show as the show played in Greece too.”
Marisa has also been quite busy in the US, where she appears on The Talk on CBS and also Home & Family on the Hallmark channel
Episode one of here Greek baking series can be seen here:
Indie Documentaries on Food & Drink surge in 2015
2015 has been a banner year for indie documentaries about food and drink, chefs and mixologists.
Case in point, Caffeinated, which recently premiered.
Also hitting the screens and circuit, Kickstarter funded, The Birth of Sake, by Erik Shira. ‘The Birth of Saké’ is a documentary film that explores how sake is handcrafted at a family-owned Japanese brewery named Tedorigawa.
Description: In a world where most mass produced goods are heavily automated, a small group of artisans must brave unusual working conditions to preserve a 2000-year-old tradition that we have come to know as saké. THE BIRTH OF SAKÉ is a cinematic documentary that reveals the story of passionate saké-makers and what it takes to make world-class saké at Yoshida Brewery, a 144-year-old family-owned small brewery in northern Japan. The workers at Yoshida Brewery are an eclectic cast of characters, ranging from 20 to 70 years old. As a vital part of this cast that must live and work for a six-month period through the brutal winter, charismatic veteran brewmaster Yamamoto (65) and the brewery’s sixth-generation heir, Yasuyuki Yoshida (27), are keepers of this tradition, and are the main characters who bring the narrative forward. As craftsmen who must dedicate their whole lives to the making of this world-class saké, their private sacrifices are often sizable and unseen.
From what the TASTE AWARDS can see, this is more than a short-term trend, this is the tip of a very large list of food & drink-based films. More on this topic soon.