- Director: Ian Cheney
- Producers: Robyn Metcalfe, Meredith DeSalazar, Rebecca Taylor
- Screenwriters: Ian Cheney
- Starring: James Stillwaggon, Mary Quicke, Alisha Norris, Jones Ana Mikadze-Chikvaidze, Galina Inasaridze, Zoe Brickley, Rachel Dutton, Chiyo Shibata, Susan Sturman, Jean-Jacques Zufferey, Salima Ikram
SHELF LIFE launches with an unusual premise: might spending time among people who age cheese yield insights about what it's like for us humans to grow old? A peripatetic journey to unexpected locations—ranging from Japan to Tblisi—provides an immersive culinary and temporal experience. At the heart of the film are the people we meet along the way: cheese makers, mongers and librarians whose perspectives on decay and dissolution both charm and haunt.
