A recording of the Q & A with KINGS OF PASTRY filmmakers CHRIS HEGEDUS and D.A. PENNEBAKER, with film subject JACQUY PFIEFFER and famed pastry chef JACQUES TORRES, recorded September 15, 2010 at Film Forum

Summary: KINGS OF PASTRY: From the makers of the documentary classics DONT LOOK BACK and THE WAR ROOM. Pennebaker and Hegedus are simply the best — so when they turn their sights on the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (MOF), France’s Nobel Prize for pastry, you’re in for a treat. Sixteen chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions, and there is edge-of-the seat drama as they deliver their fantastical, spun-sugar desserts to the display table. The inevitable disasters prove both poignant and hilarious. When the film played in the U.K., critics dubbed it “the culinary HURT LOCKER”; “gastro-porn of the highest quality…as thrilling as any Olympic final”; and “quite possibly one of the most delicious films ever committed to celluloid.” Yum. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with KINGS OF PASTRY filmmakers CHRIS HEGEDUS and D.A. PENNEBAKER, with film subject JACQUY PFIEFFER and famed pastry chef JACQUES TORRES, recorded September 15, 2010 at Film Forum during a screening of the film.