You might be wondering what the queen of farm-to-table cuisine and an Oscar-nominated actor have in common. Well, on October 24, you can join both Alice Waters and Jake Gyllenhaal for an intimate reception benefiting the Edible Schoolyard Project and Edible Schoolyard NYC, organizations that bring to life Waters’s vision of an edible education in schools nationwide and in NYC public schools.

Join them at NYC’s Neue Galerie, along with other movers and shakers of New York’s food scene, such as famed restaurateur Ken Friedman. Not only will you get to preview Neue’s fall exhibition, but you’ll also be supporting a long-standing program that teaches students about making healthy food choices and that advocates for free, nutritious school lunches for all students.

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Jake will be promoting ‘Stronger’ on various talk shows in the coming days. Be sure to tune in!

Upcoming TV Appearances

• September 14th, 2017 – The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• September 15th, 2017 – Today Show
• September 17th, 2017 – CBS Sunday Morning
• September 21st, 2017 – Conan
• September 22nd, 2017 – The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal will receive the Golden Icon award for lifetime achievement at this year’s Zurich International Film Festival.

Gyllenhaal will attend the Zurich fest to present Stronger, in which he stars as Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman. Stronger, directed by David Gordon Green, which will have its world premiere in Toronto on Friday, will screen Oct. 3 in Zurich.

At least since his breakout performance as Donnie Darko in 2001, Gyllenhaal has counted among the greatest actors of his generation. His embrace of complicated and troubled characters — a closeted gay man struggling with love and identity in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, a psychotic ambulance chasing video journalist in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler — has been rewarded with both critical and commercial acclaim.

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The US premiere of “Stronger,” the movie about Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, will not be held in a fancy theater in New York, Los Angeles, or even in Boston. Instead, the much-anticipated movie starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will screen first, on Sept. 12, at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, where Bauman and 31 others injured in the bombings were treated.

“It’s important for us to be in that space,” says “Stronger” director David Gordon Green.

The movie, which arrives in theaters Sept. 22, is the second big-budget Hollywood film about the events of April 15, 2013, when two bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 260. Bauman, who was there to greet his then-girlfriend, lost both of his legs in one of the blasts.

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It has been announced that ‘Stronger’ will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, September 8th. According to Bold Films’ CEO Gary Michael Walters, Jake is expected to attend.

Stronger – David Gordon Green – World Premiere

David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls) directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in this adaptation of the memoir by Jeff Bauman, which recounts his struggles to adjust to a new kind of life after losing his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing.

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