Jon Favreau Donates Tribeca Film Festival Prize Money to Food Rescue Charity

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Jon Favreau is planning to donate his $26,000 cash prize from the Tribeca Film Festival to a New York City food rescue charity. The actor-director won the Heineken Audience Award for Best Narrative Film on Saturday (April 26, 2014), for his food truck movie Chef.

We thought Chef would turn out to be really, really good on the strength of the excellent trailer and the critics piled in with the positive reviews.

"CHEF is a lot of things - it's fitting that a road trip movie should be so all over the map - but what it is most of all is a celebration of tasty food and the people who make it, and I guess I can get behind that," said Meredith Borders of Badass Digest.

"The film is heaven for food porn enthusiasts, with its lovingly shot montages of sautéed veggies, juicy grilled meats and gooey melted cheeses," said Zeba Blay of Digital Spy.


Favreau has since revealed that the prize money from the Tribeca award will be heading to City Harvest, a group which aims to provide fresh produce for poverty-stricken residents across New York.

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1. Good for him

Celebrities are usually gobbling up the goody bags for themselves. This is refreshing.