Please join NH Docs and BVFCC for a new monthly screening collaboration. Our inaugural feature will be The Oystering Life directed by Steve Hamm. There will be a Q&A following the screen with director Steve Hamm and Chef Nadine Nelson, Green Queen of Cuisine, the eco chef and social entrepreneur of Global Local Gourmet, a roving community-supported kitchen. The event begins at 7 pm, with a cover charge of $10.

The Oystering Life is a feature-length video documentary by director Steve Hamm and editor Scott N. Amore that tells the story of Oystering along the Connecticut Coast, from the early days of native Americans and European settlers, through years when oysters were in abundance, its collapse in the early 20th century, to oyster!s remarkable revival today.

Chef Nadine Nelson, Green Queen of Cuisine, is the eco chef and social entrepreneur of Global Local Gourmet, a roving community-supported kitchen. Chef Nadine was born in Toronto, Canada of Jamaican Heritage. She has always loved cooking and her vegetables. She has studied the culinary arts in Paris at the Ritz Escoffier, has a certificate in food styling from the New School and a certificate in fundraising and philanthropy from New York University in New York, and earned a teaching degree from Tufts University in Boston, consequently she brings a worldly perspective to seasonal food.

She is a social activist, cooking instructor, chef, writer, recipe developer/tester, food consultant, experiential epicurean event producer and culinary artist. She is an expert in interactive cuisine and has worked with such clients as Harvard University, The Apollo Theater, the City of New Haven, Boston Office of Conventions and Tourism, The National Park Service, The Food Project, Disney, Bain and Company, Columbia University, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the Tobago Jazz Festival designing and delivering cooking classes, culinary team building, wellness workshops, culinary tours, and epicurean event planning.