If you’re much of a drinker (or eater) you probably have a favorite place for wings.

Filmmaker Matt Reynolds left a successful career in the Czech Republic to find his. And his movie chronicling the saucy quest, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, has been making this year’s festival rounds, earning the description “The Big Lebowski of docs.”

But like “the Dude,” Reynolds apparently isn’t great with deadlines. He missed the one for submissions to the Vermont International Film Festival, but according to festival executive director, Orly Yadin, the film was so good, she decided not just to show it but to build an event around it.

AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.