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Featuring over 1000 titles and over 1700+ hours of content, DocPlay is New Zealand's most comprehensive, curated platform for documentary films and series across topics ranging from history, politics, sports, music, food, social issues, and much more.

DocPlay places a huge importance on local content - currently with 40% of the platform made up of content from New Zealand or Australia. Some local highlights include JAMES & ISEY, the LOADING DOCS series, David Farrier’s TICKLED, and more.

Some key foodie titles include:

Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

Documenting the collaboration between world renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi​ and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES follows five visionary pastry makers. A veritable who’s who of the dessert world is assembled – including Dominique Ansel​ and Dinara Kasko​ – as they race against the clock to construct a decadent food gala based on the sumptuous exhibit: Visitors to Versailles​. OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES is an extravagant feast for the senses, exploring the mouth-watering intersection between food, culture, and history.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro's sushi bar.At the heart of this story is Jiro's relationship with his eldest son Yoshikazu, the worthy heir to Jiro's legacy, who is unable to live up to his full potential in his father's shadow.

MEAT (NZ doco)

An intimate encounter with the human face of food, MEAT is an astonishing insight into the hidden world behind the supermarket shelves. Dive into the life and work of four profoundly different meat producers – discover how the food on your table is shaped by the great issues of our age: feminism, waste, philosophy, greed, morality, health, welfare, environmentalism, even terrorism. In the collision of lives, ideas and opinions, MEAT serves up a powerful and provocative portrait of the people who feed us – and why – without ever telling us what to think. Resisting simple answers or judgments, this is a film about food, focused on the personalities behind it, and their ideas and feelings about the work that sustains them. Building a disruptive picture of one of the world's most essential, yet controversial industries, MEAT is much more than a documentary about meat.

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