Students of the University of Gastronomic Sciences will take part in a special screening of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt’s documentary, Tupperware!, about the lives of Brownie Wise and Earl Tupper, the inventors of the famous plastic food containers.
The screening is part a Tupperware! evening presented by the Biografilm Festival, and will take place at 9:00 pm on Thursday, November 15th at the Cinema Due Giardini, 62, via Monfalcone in Torino.
The documentary casts new light on an era of revolutions, both small and large, in the daily experience of women in post-War America—from the use of a little plastic bowl that burps to the desire for redemption from the mundanity of domestic life.
Tupperware! charts the story of Brownie Wise, a “simple secretary” and self-taught marketing whiz, and Earl Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor. In the 1950s the two built an empire out of his remarkable invention and her genius for sales, and in the process brought dignity and depth to the world of domesticity. Recounting the lives and sensational successes of Wise and Tupper, the film owes thanks to extensive research done on hours of very colorful amateur footage shot during the famous Tupperware Home Parties, along with vintage images and anecdotes from the period.
For more information:
www.thetupperwarefilm.com
www.biografilm.it