KING GEORGES

Presented by EAST SIDE URGENT CARE

Fiery French chef Georges Perrier is on a crusade to keep his 40-year-old, internationally-renowned restaurant, Le Bec-Fin in Philadelphia, relevant in a culinary world of new stars and shifting tastes.

More than just a documentary about food, KING GEORGES is a touching story about passion, aging and art.

Co-staring Nicholas Elmi (winner of Top Chef in 2014) and featuring interviews with chefs Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller and Eric Ripert and former Mayor of Philadelphia Ed Rendell.

French Wine & Food Pairing courtesy of BISTRO FOURCHETTE accompanying screening.

Director Biography

Erika Frankel produced THE HOME TEAM (2014, SXSW, AFI DOCS), a documentary short on NCAA basketball in Kentucky. Previously, she produced ANNIE: IT’S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE (2013, PBS), a feature documentary on the 2012 revival of the Broadway musical that received rave reviews from The New York Times (“delightful”), Entertainment Weekly (“a must see,” A-) and The Onion’s A/V Club (A-) and FRONTRUNNERS (2008, SXSW; 2010, Sundance Channel), a smart and funny look at the hard-fought race for school president at Stuyvesant High School in New York City,

She has produced numerous programs for television including PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW (profiles of a paleoanthropologist and a computer hacker), SUPERHEROES (three-hour-long series on the history of comic book superheroes), MAKE ‘EM LAUGH (six-hour-long series on the history of American comedy), The Discovery Channel’s EARTH 2050 (hour-long special on the future of energy) and many others. She began her career as a production assistant for legendary documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim and as an associate producer on several episodes of the PBS series AMERICAN MASTERS: GORE VIDAL (2003, Sundance), JONI MITCHELL and WOODY ALLEN.

She makes her directorial debut with KING GEORGES.