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Poster for Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes

Director: Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2016

Starring: Jay McInerney, Jefery Levy, Laurent Ponsot

The feature documentary SOUR GRAPES, co-directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas, pops the cork on a the world’s greatest wine fraud.

Q&A with director and Cara Cusumano (Director of Programming, Tribeca Film Festival) to also include a special wine tasting presentation.

With youthful charisma and pockets full of cash, Rudy Kurniawan earns the reputation of a wine savant, ingratiating himself with some of high society’s most fervent connoisseurs. His Gatsbyesque path collides with US billionaire Bill Koch, and Laurent Ponsot, a Burgundian winemaker, resulting in a humorous and suspenseful investigation into one of the most ingenious cons of our time. 

Part of Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR series, in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.