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Celebrity chef Susan Feniger, the bubbly “Mary Tyler Moore” of the cooking world, must team up with a foul-mouthed, scotch swilling “influencer” to save her flagging TV career. It’s a match made in hell.

Synopsis

They go together like peanut butter and chocolate; like Penn & Teller; like knife and fork… YES! We’re talking about happy-go-lucky, celebrity chef Susan Feniger and Joe, the foul-mouthed, inappropriate puppet whose alphabet song starts with F and ends with K. These lopsided soul-mates have been forced to do a cooking show together: one has worked with her hands for over 35 years, the other has had a hand up his ass for that same amount of time. It’s a match made in hell. And in this series, they never do finish a recipe.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Liz Lachman — Creator/Producer/Director
Liz Lachman is a Detroit-born filmmaker who spent the first half of life as a singer/songwriter and attended University of Michigan School of Music. After settling in Los Angeles, Liz won an Emmy Award for writing music for television and later a Golden Reel award as a Music Editor. Switching to screenwriting and filmmaking, Liz has a had a few scripts optioned and several that have been quarter finalist and top 15% in the Nicholl, Page, and Final Draft screenplay contests. She currently has a script, Rhythm, being packaged by CAA. Liz made two short films (Getting To Know You and Pin-Up) that did very well at film festivals; Pin-Up winning 30 festival awards and Getting To Know You winning nine awards). Liz is now in development on the feature version of Pin-Up. Her first feature, a documentary, Susan Feniger. FORKED, is a culinary disaster film based on her spouse, the celebrity chef, traveling the world gathering street food recipes and building her first solo endeavor in Los Angeles, a restaurant featuring global street food. It all went horribly wrong. Susan Feniger. FORKED is now in distribution with both Kaleidoscope Entertainment (worldwide) and Freestyle Entertainment (U.S.).

Susan Feniger— Cast
6 cookbooks, 9 restaurants, 7 kiosks & food stands, and over 400 TV episodes later…
she has a lot to prove (NOT). Susan hates this concept… that should be proof enough it works!

Claudia Roque — Producer/Production Design
A Creative Producer and Production Designer in the film and television industry with over 14 years of expertise across various narrative formats, encompassing single-cam, multi-cam, and unscripted productions, Claudia recently helmed the design for High Desert (Apple TV+) starring Patricia Arquette and Matt Dillon, directed by Jay Roach, and Lopez vs Lopez (NBC Universal) featuring George & Mayan Lopez. In 2016, she received an Art Directors Guild Award for Art Direction on The Muppets (Disney). The show subsequently garnered an Emmy Nomination for Best Production Design for a Half-Hour Narrative Program. Claudia also possesses a background in business management.

Leslie Owen — Consulting Producer
Leslie Owen is a seasoned filmmaker with over 25 years of production experience in Commercials, Television, and Feature Films. In addition to traditional single camera productions, she has an extensive creative and technical background in Film, Multi-Camera, Live-to-Tape, VR and Documentary production. Her projects have shot all over the world. 2013, Haiti: Where Did the Money Go? PBS (shot and produced by Leslie Owen in partnership with Film@11) won the prestigious Edward R Murrow Award for best TV News Documentary 2023 Fresh Kills, narrative feature film produced by Leslie, world premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival.

Tracy Hof — Editor
Tracy Hof is an editor and cinematographer, known for The Wolf PAC Philadelphia (2021), Girl Rising (2013) and Clouds Over Cuba (2012). She has freelance edited numerous commercials over the past 15 years; Was Lead creative editorial of Customer Stories and Post Production manager for Lumen Films, elevating the creative of projects and was main editor for the educational series; Senior editor on the marketing team at Master Class. Tracy has been married to Molly Brink since 2008. They have one child.

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