About TASTE With Kevin Longa
Food is everything. Food is fighting fascism, seeking redemption and chasing dreams. TASTE reveals the undiscovered stories of culinaires from around the world. The documentary series will inspire you to explore people and places beyond the plate in front of you. After developing a dangerous risk of type 2 diabetes at 11, independent filmmaker Kevin Longa began a lifelong mission to understand food—and the pioneers unleashing its potential. Join Kevin on a journey revealing the revolutionaries who’ve been simmering below the surface.
WITH NOTHING BUT A CAMERA AND AN APPETITE, KEVIN LONGA BEGAN FILMING.
About the filmmaker, Kevin Longa
Food unites us. Kevin Longa explores human stories through the lens of our world’s cuisines. Longa’s TASTE documentary short film series has earned forty-five film festival acceptances, including Amazon Prime’s All Voices Film Festival, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Devour! Film Festival and dozens more. Select documentaries have been featured on Vimeo’s Video of the Week, Roku and Amazon Prime Video.
Driven by his own mixed-race identity and food story, Longa makes films through two uniting forces: food and stories. Rather than producing food documentaries that force a particular message, Longa reveals the personal stories of food makers worldwide, so that everybody can appreciate our world's diverse cultures.
Longa has made films ever since he was eight years old, but it wasn’t until he turned eleven that food entered his consciousness. Obesity plagued his childhood. When a nurse warned that he could develop type 2 diabetes, he re-examined his food through filmmaking. By the time he was in high school he created his first feature-length food documentary.
Longa worked for several years with AmeriCorps as a documentary filmmaker. He filmed with underserved communities and marginalized young adults who pursued culinary career paths. His film work promoted career and culinary education non-profits such as Sprouts Cooking Club and Beyond Emancipation. TASTE was selected for the Google Cloud Platform for Startups program. He participates weekly with Black Trans Liberation Kitchen and has provided one-on-one career mentorship and training for dozens of aspiring student filmmakers. He lives in NYC.
