Join MOFAD as we host a special screening of the James Beard Award winning film "Coldwater Kitchen" on the film's New York City tour stop.

For 30 years, soft-spoken chef Jimmy Lee Hill has run a highly regarded culinary training program out of a prison in Coldwater, Mich., offering incarcerated men a renewed sense of purpose through the craft of fine dining — everything from foie gras to lobster. “Coldwater Kitchen” follows Chef Hill and three of his students as they navigate the woes of incarceration and their journeys transitioning back into society.

Through the interwoven and diverse stories of the four key characters, the film subtly addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time, employing food as a prism to tell deeper stories of purpose, resilience, and redemption.

Following the screening, hear from Chef Hill, co-director and former Detroit Free Press restaurant and dining critic, Mark Kurlyandchik, executive producer and MOFAD trustee, Desire Vincent Levy, and Kimberly Buddin, Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU in a discussion moderated by Nick Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice.