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The "Hungry" competitive eating documentary by Jeff Cerulli and Barry Rothbart was released on internet streaming services today. The film can be downloaded on iTunes for $12.99. update June 25 Kobayashi has links where the movie can be rented on amazon and vudu.
The competitive eating documentary Hungry will be available on iTunes, hulu and VOD platforms on June 24. (trailer)
The New York Times has an article about "Famous Nathan", a documentary about Nathan Handwerker, founder of Nathan's Famous that will show this weekend at the TriBeCa Film Festival mentioning the founding of the hot dog eating contest in the early 1970s. (DNA Info article)
LosAngeles.Craigslist.org has a request for competitive eaters who want to appear in a short documentary.

Possible outtakes from “Hungry” documentary

At least two people were interviewed for the Hungry documentary that are not listed in the credits for the film. Perhaps the outtakes could appear on a DVD if one is produced.

Brightest Young Things has a positive review of the film.

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Takeru Kobayashi will appear on VH1's Big Morning Buzz at 10 AM today, presumably to promote the release of the documentary Hungry.
Pivot.tv has an interview with Barry Rothbart (starts at 37 minute mark), co-director of the documentary Hungry. Clips of Brad Sciullo from the film are shown during the segment.
The Queens Chronicle has an interview with Barry Rothbart about his documentary Hungry that will debut on November 15 at Doc NYC.

New simplified Hungry poster

A new poster for the competitive eating documentary Hungry which removes all images from the previous poster except for a hot dog. Credits are listed on the new poster; Takeru Kobayashi, Brad Sciullo and Dave Goldstein are the competitive eaters receiving billing.

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Hungry documentary website & film credits

The documentary “Hungry” will debut in two weeks at DOC NYC. A website for the film has been set up at http://www.hungrythefilm.com/.

The cast includes
Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Dave Goldstein, Stephanie Torres, Joe LaRue, Brad Sciullo, Mike DeVito, Curtis Sliwa, Gersh Kuntzman, Sam Barclay, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Pete Czerwinski, Jonathan Squibb and Tony Hawk. Brian Seiken is credited for his interview with Brad Sciullo.

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The competitive eating documentary "Hungry" will debut at DOC NYC on November 15 at 11:59 pm as part of its Midnight Docs series. Takeru Kobayashi is expected to attend the screening. A facebook page for the movie has been set up at facebook.com/Hungrythemovie (via IndieWire)
A new trailer for the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary focusing on Takeru Kobayashi and Brad Sciullo is available on youtube. The caption lists a release date this fall.
The mini-documentary about Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez competing in the Nugget Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, NV is now available on the VICE.com youtube channel.
Dave "US Male" Goldstein's facebook fan page has the poster for the competitive eating documentary Hungry. Likenesses of Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertolett appear in the image and the slogan is "The battle for competitive eating will not be televised."
Splitsider has an interview with comedian Barry Rothbart, co-producer of the upcoming competitive eating documentary Hungry. He makes the following claim about his film: "We actually started digging so deep that the league tried to sabotage our project on several occasions. It was like a spy movie." A release date is not provided.
Variety has an article about comedian Barry Rothbart mentioning his competitive eating documentary, "Hungry". A release date is not given.
It is the one year anniversary of the creation of a limited liability corporation for the upcoming competitive eating documtenary Hungry on March 27, 2012. Over one hundred corporations have the same Beverly Hills address as the documentary company, Klasky Csupo, animators of the first three seasons of The Simpsons is one of them.
It has been one year since the competitive eating documentary "Hungry" reached its $10,000 funding goal on kickstarter.com. In a January update, the film's producers say their project is almost complete and they have submitted it to several film festivals.
Sunday Sport has an interview with Lewis "Biggest Lew" Richards, the 10th place finisher in the Hooters wing finals and the subject of a segment in ITV's recent competitive eating documentary.

“All You Can Eat” British documentary on youtube

All You Can Eat a documentary that was televised last week on the British channel ITV, can now be viewed on youtube. Featured competitive eaters include:

  • Pat Bertoletti (shows a training session)
  • Larell Marie (behind the scenes coverage of the Nathan’s finals)
  • Hooters Finals sponsor’s exemption Lewis Richards (Hooters contest coverage labels finalist Nate Biller as “Nasty Nick” and calls Sonya Thomas the defending champion of the first-time event.)
  • 72 year old Peter Dowdsewell (attempts 10 hard boiled eggs record)

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ITV competitive eating documentary / 200+ English eating challenges

update Jan 24, 2014 Additional challenges have been added since this list was posted. See http://eatfeats.com/calendar/UnitedKingdom.html (600+ challenges) and http://eatfeats.com/calendar/England.html for updated lists.

ITV in Great Britain are running a documentary about competitive eating in the UK and USA titled All You Can Eat at 9 pm and 10 pm British time tonight. (Liverpool Echo article)

A listing of over 200 English eating challenges in the eatfeats database follows after the jump. Other websites about UK food challenges are The Food Project and MenVsFoodUk Read the rest of this entry »

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The documentary The Story of Furious Pete is now available for purchase on furiouspete.com
A documentary will be produced about a road trip to Toronto for tomorrow's poutine eating contest will star Micah Collins, Larell Marie Mele, Bill Myers and Bob Shoudt. (This will not be the first project about a voyage to Yonge Street (site of the contest) to seek fortune; an SCTV sketch from 1982 Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice has the same subject.)
The right sidebar for the Kickstarter page for the competitive eating documentary Hungry lists an estimated date for the premier and DVD availability in August 2012. The project reached its funding threshold of $10,000 six months ago on March 13. update Barry Rothbart reponds: "Don't worry. The world is about to experience Hungry. And it will rattle Competitve Eating"
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