Sara Joe Wolansky left her job as a video producer at The New Yorker in 2022 to pursue a feature documentary career. After a few months of reflection, Wolansky decided to make a film about a topic that she was passionate about: cheesemongers.

Like a sommelier whose expertise is wine, cheesemongers are experts in cheese. A vaunted, prestigious career in Europe, American cheesemongers are, for the most part, not held in such high esteem. Wolansky spent close to three years following America’s greatest cheesemongers as they attempted the impossible: beating the French at their own game and winning the Mondial du Fromage, the Olympics of cheese. The result is Wolansky’s first feature doc “The Big Cheese.”

In the film, the director follows a team of eccentric and determined U.S.-based cheesem

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