For the past 30 years DV Cuisine has been producing documentaries for television and corporate clients. Today we have ventured in a new direction towards culinary and food security programs. 

Our first documentary on Food Security, titled "Island on the Edge" was such a success that people asked us for a follow up and we are happy to announce that our second documentary, titled "Food Security - It's In Your Hands", premiered to a SOLD OUT audience at Cineplex Odeon Theatre at the Victoria Film Festival on February 5.

A Team of 14 Rotary volunteers worked three weeks in Malawi, Africa, as part of a Sweat Equity Project. They helped fund and build two school classrooms, fixed and painted teachers’ houses and learned about the challenges that the people of Malawi face, particularly the women and children who are HIV positive. The group visited HIV clinics, homes and other areas of importance.

Their experiences deepened and expanded the relationship with the people in the village of Misangu and Rotary’s partners Dignitas and Emmanuel International.

Nick created a 45-minute documentary on the project and a 20-minute version that is used to fundraise for the two Rotary initiatives. $10.00 of each DVD sold will be donated to this initiative

In Part Two of this two-part documentary we continue our journey with Culinary Team Canada. We follow the team to two competitions, the first one in Chicago at the American Culinary Classic and the last one in Erfurt, Germany. Culinary ideas are practiced to perfection and served at fundraisers. When the team feels they are ready and the practices are perfected we go to Germany for the World Culinary Olympics, the final event! Can team Canada break through the European domination of countries like Norway, Switzerland and Sweden?

This eight-part series takes viewers through the art of making breakfast pastries, artisan breads, sweet doughs, and much more. 

Episodes:

• Simplified Bread Baking – Baguette to Pretzel
• Simplified Bread Baking – Laminated and Sweet Doughs
• Simplified Bread Baking – Enriched Doughs
• Simplified Bread Baking – Quick Breads
• Shaping Bread – Creating Variety Through Form
• Sourdough Breads I
• Sourdough Breads II
• Wood-Fired Baking and Cuisine

Chefs come to “The Laughing Geese” in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Here they can walk in the garden and get fresh produce, fresh herbs, and eggs from the free-range chickens. Besides being a beautiful area, the Cowichan Valley has a lot to offer, from local cheesemakers, a baker who bakes with Red Fife Wheat, many wineries and fresh mozzarella cheese from a local buffalo farm.

Ciril Hitz was our first (guest chef) baker to visit “The Laughing Geese.” He demonstrated how to bake croissants, gibassier, butter scones, whole wheat bread and a Tyrolean chocolate cake. The DVD will teach you how to create the perfect breakfast for that special person in your life… and a few extra surprises.

Chef Ciril Hitz is a baking/pastry instructor at Johnson & Whales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has competed in the National Bread and Pastry Team Championship (2004) held in Atlantic City. There his team won 1st place overall and individually Ciril captured the honors of the Best Bread Showpiece, Best Bread Degustation, and Best Viennoiserie Degustation.

He was also the artistic category representative on the 2002 Bread Bakers Guild Team which represented the USA at the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in Paris, France and captured the Silver Medal.