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GLOBAL FOODSix stories, six adventures, six original, unexpected stories, that arefull of surprises, anecdotes and revelations, carried along by livelycharacters and incredible situations.

DIRECTORCOPRODUCERS

ARTLINE FILMS, FRANCE 5, STEFILMFORMAT

6 x 52 ',  2007AVAILABLE RIGHTS

TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -Internet

VERSIONSEnglish - French

TERRITORY(IES)Worldwide except Italia, France, Slovenia,French-speaking Belgium, Finland, Japan.

Sushi was the first fast food in history, chips have become a national treasure andsandwiches were canonised by the English aristocracy. More than being sometimes age-old dishes, more than being a tradition or a phenomenon - pizzas, ice cream, sandwiches,sushi, chips and pasta have become icons of the globalised world and play a majoreconomic, cultural and social role in it. All these simple local dishes have become universaland are now eaten all over the world. Yet universal as they are, in each country wherethey have been adopted, they are changed to suit the tastes of the inhabitants, givingrise to variations hailed as local specialities - from the hot pastrami sandwich in New Yorkto the Hawaiian pizza, from mussels and chips in Brussels to American French fries - theculinary variations are endless! An appetising series!

LIST OF EPISODESGELATO

SUSHI EMPIRE (THE)

WHICH SANDWICH IS WHICH?

ONCE UPON A FRENCH FRY

PIZZA NOSTRA

PASTA MANIA

GELATOWe all know about ice cream and its links with Italy. Because gelaticonjure up as much a picture of Italy as do pizzas and pasta. But howdid ice cream come to be? Where are the best ice creams in the worldmade today?

DIRECTORSusan GRAY

COPRODUCERSARTLINE FILMS, STEFILM

FORMAT1 x 52 ',  2007

AVAILABLE RIGHTSTV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -

InternetVERSIONS

English - FrenchTERRITORY(IES)

Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia, Japan and

Finland.

This film explores ice cream from the innermost depths of its mysterious past. Theorigins of ice cream unfold as the film reconstructs the development of this gastronomiclegend, from the royal courts of Europe to the arrival of street sellers all over theworld. Throughout the world, different variations of the recipe have spread among theextremely diverse cultures we met during our survey. In this journey through time, the filmshows how the invention, production and distribution of ice cream have been intricatelylinked to social and economic change for two centuries. Making ice creams is not just aprofession it's also an art, a lifestyle even.

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ONCE UPON A FRENCH FRYFrench fries - that marvel of human culinary genius!DIRECTOR

Pierre-olivier FRANCOISCOPRODUCERS

ARTLINE FILMS, STEFILMFORMAT

1 x 52 ',  2007AVAILABLE RIGHTS

TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -Internet

VERSIONSEnglish - French

TERRITORY(IES)Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia and Finland.

A film that relates why the Incas didn't invent French fries, how they can be made tosing (quite literally), why the Belgians have dedicated a museum to them (and not theFrench), why they have been served at the White House for the last 200 years, and whythe Japanese believe that eating them will make them tall, white and blond. Not forgettingtheir appeal to Marcel Proust, Peggy Guggenheim, Yves Montand, the President of theBelgian parliament and children everywhere. This upbeat and surrealist musical comedyis a truly artistic film.

PASTA MANIAWho really knows the fabulous story of pasta?DIRECTOR

Stefano TEALDICOPRODUCERS

ARTLINE FILMS, STEFILMFORMAT

1 x 52 ',  2007AVAILABLE RIGHTS

TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -InternetVERSION

FrenchTERRITORY(IES)

Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia and Finland.

Was it Marco Polo who brought it back from China to Venice or was it createdspontaneously under the Naples sun? Is it better well cooked or al dente? With ketchupor tomato sauce? Should it be cut, bitten or sucked in? Everything you've always wantedto know about pasta¿and would never have imagined - from prehistoric spaghetti fossilsto the first Japanese instant noodles, from the artisans in Gragnano to the ultra-wealthyheirs of Barilla, to Tokyo's 3,000 Italian restaurants.

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PIZZA NOSTRAThe pizza is the antithesis of culture clash, a symbol of positiveglobalisation and a link between past and present, East and West.Pizza per tutti !

DIRECTORPierre-olivier FRANCOIS

COPRODUCERSARTLINE FILMS, STEFILM

FORMAT1 x 52 ',  2007

AVAILABLE RIGHTSTV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -

InternetVERSIONS

English - FrenchTERRITORY(IES)

Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia, Japan, Norway

and Finland.

Water, flour, olive oil, cheese, some tomato and whatever leftovers are to hand¿ this ispoor people's food par excellence. It's simple food, eaten straight from the serving plate,and is the base for any sauce at all. And yet, in barely a century, the pizza has becomehumanity's most universal dish. Even North Korea, the most closed country in the world,is embracing it. In recent years in the United States, studies show that the pizza hasreplaced the hamburger once and for all as the favourite dish of the Americans (who,incidentally, are convinced they invented it!). Historians bicker over its origin. Whether itis round, square, fresh, frozen, grabbed on-the-go, savoured as a family meal on the banksof the Nile, eaten on the beach at Copa Cabana, Neapolitan, Norwegian or Hawaiian, thepizza hovers between purity and degeneration, between the epitome of all things Italianand the expiatory victim of world-wide consumption. This is the saga the film aims to tell- a story full of twists and turns dating back to the dawn of time and the Romans. It alsoseeks to analyse the most modern and craziest aspects of the phenomenon.

SUSHI EMPIRE (THE)Or how a simple ball of rice topped with a piece of raw fish hasconquered the planet in just thirty years.

DIRECTORGerard LAFONT

COPRODUCERSARTLINE FILMS, STEFILM

FORMAT1 x 52 ',  2007

AVAILABLE RIGHTSTV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -

InternetVERSION

FrenchTERRITORY(IES)

Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia and Finland.

On the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice, in Sao Paulo's Japantown or in the chic andnot-so-chic districts of Los Angeles, London and Paris, people make light work of thisfirst fast-food in history, created in 17th century Japan. Tokyo sushi masters, top Frenchand American chefs, groups of "fishmonger rockers", retailers at the Tsukiji Market (the"world tuna bank"), as well as anthropologists, ecologists and economists tell the tale,with or without wasabi, of the spectacular Japanese culinary wave. A succulent series!

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WHICH SANDWICH IS WHICH?The Earl of Sandwich's 18th century invention is the greatest thingsince sliced bread!

DIRECTORPierre BOURGEOIS

COPRODUCERSARTLINE FILMS, STEFILM

FORMAT1 x 52 ',  2007

AVAILABLE RIGHTSTV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights -

InternetVERSION

FrenchTERRITORY(IES)

Worldwide except Italia, France, French-speaking Belgium, Slovenia and Finland.

Since then, variations on the sandwich theme have piled up all over the world - tramezziniin Italy, Hot Dogs in New York, le jambon-beurre in Parisian bars, the world-widehamburger and the Ham Bao Bao in Beijing. But more importantly, the sandwich hasrevolutionised our lifestyles, from the working-men's mobile companion to the associateof women's liberation in the seventies. Often decried by dieticians, it is back with a bangtoday, and is increasingly organic, attractive and ¿ scrumptious !

THEMATIC INDEX

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

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