A visual gastronomical feast and educational tool. From the wheat field to the mill to the kitchens and bakeries of the world, Bread is a mouth-watering, fast paced documentary.
     Not only are the smooth, comperative cuts from bread being hand-made to production line machine-made appetizing, but exceptionally strong use of form and camera angles will sparkle the tastebuds of film gourmands. Itmay be the first and last time you get to sit down in front of an oven and watch buns rising. Bring your own peanut butter and jelly!

     This appealing catalogue begins with growing wheat and ends with buttered bread on a dinner table. The film's subject is very photogenic and the filmmaker creates a high level of interest by showing the variations of bread-making from bagels to braided loaves. The loud factory sounds contrast with the quiet of small-scale or home production, and there are innovative time-lapse shots of dough rising and of bread baking inside the oven. A very good montage sequence deals with the human factor and ethnically varied people are shown measuring, mixing, kneading and baking -- or running the machines designed to do those tasks.
     This documentary is suitable for all viewers from primary grades up, in social studies and cooking classes or for discussions about jobs and ethnic cultures. In case of further interest view the STUDY GUIDE that accompanies this film.

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FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

• 26th American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon Award

• Murcia International Film Festival, 2nd Prize Documentary

• Yorkton Educational Film Festival, Nominated for Golden Sheaf

• San Francisco International Film Festival

• Krakovie International Film Festival

• Birmingham International Film Festival

• Athens International Film Festival

• FILMEX

DIRECTOR:
ALBERT KISH

PRODUCER:
BASHAR SHBIB