WNPT’s Indie Lens Pop-Up & Screening of Billy Dec‘s Food Roots

Nashville PBS invites you to an evening of film and conversation exploring the ways food connects us to family, culture, and community.

The centerpiece of the evening is Food Roots, in which Emmy Award-winning Chicago restaurateur Billy Dec travels to his mother’s native Philippines to learn recipes from elders. What begins as a culinary journey becomes a reckoning with family history, cultural identity, and the stories that get passed down, or nearly lost, with every generation.

The program opens with the premiere of a new Nashville PBS short film about the International Market, a beloved local institution founded in 1975 by Win and Patti Myint that introduced generations of Nashvillians to Thai cuisine. Their children Anna and Arnold Myint now carry that legacy forward at IM2, a Michelin-recognized, James Beard-celebrated restaurant just across Belmont Boulevard from where it all began.

We’ll also screen selected short films from The Grocery List Show, an Independent Lens series that visits international grocery stores across America and the multicultural communities they serve. Each episode follows former Top Chef contender Chrissy Camba and her guests as they shop for ingredients, cook a favorite family recipe, and celebrate global food traditions over a shared meal.

Following the films, Dec joins Nashville PBS President & CEO Becky Magura for a conversation about food, family, storytelling, and what it means to go looking for your roots.

Food will be provided by Sunda New Asian.

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