Daisy Friedman is an up-and-coming writer/director whose most recent film, Unholy, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Food was the perfect way for me to do that in Unholy, because Jewish culture and ritual is so deeply food-oriented. Food and everything that accompanies it—eating-related issues, invisible disabilities, and sensitivity around food for socio-historical reasons—are so central to Jewish culture. My mantra about the food during pre-production was “FOOD PORN, FOOD PORN, FOOD PORN.” We wanted to make the food so specific, so intricate that it was almost grotesque. I think a lot of people thought they were walking into a student film which—technically yes, I was a student who was making a film—but it wasn’t what you would think of as a student film.