Patty vs. Patty

Patty vs. Patty
Directed byChris Strikes
Written byChris Strikes
Produced byMaya Annik Bedward
Kate Fraser
Chris Strikes
StarringOrville Cummings
CinematographyAshley Iris Gill
Edited byMaria Todorov-Topouzov
Music bySolitair
Production
companies
Callowgrove Entertainment
Third Culture Media
Release date
  • February 17, 2022 (2022-02-17)
Running time
19 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Patty vs. Patty is a 2022 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Chris Strikes.[1] The film recounts the true story of the "patty wars" of 1985, when restaurants in Toronto which served Jamaican patties had to fight a bureaucratic edict that they could not call their product a "patty", on the grounds that consumers might confuse them with hamburger patties,[2] through a mixture of documentary footage and satirical dramatic reenactments performed by actor Orville Cummings.[1]

The film premiered February 17, 2022, on CBC Gem and YouTube.[3] It was also later screened at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival.

  1. ^ a b Michael Sommers, "CBC documentary dramatizes Canada's hilarious, but true war on Jamaican patties". Taste Toronto, March 2022.
  2. ^ Chris Strikes, "I grew up on beef patties. I was shocked to find out that the Canadian government tried to rename them in 1985". CBC Docs, February 17, 2022.
  3. ^ Vanessa Caldwell, "The story of Toronto's bizarre 1985 'patty wars': when the government tried to rename the beef patty". CBC Docs, February 17, 2022.