This week in film rounds up the most noteworthy independent screenings and cinema-related events happening in Toronto.

MONDAY OCTOBER 3RD / A MATTER OF TASTE: SERVING UP PAUL LIEBRANDT / TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX /
This seems to be a good year for foodies and cinephiles alike, as yet another food-based documentary comes to the TIFF Bell Lightbox this fall. A Matter of Taste specifically takes a decade-long look at Paul Liebrandt, a daring young chef who won three stars from the New York Times in 2002, the youngest chef ever to do so, and saw his career skyrocket ever since. For the post-Anthony Bourdain era, the film highlights things we have all come to know by now, the restaurant business is a grueling, thankless machine that will take talented young people and tear them apart, but occasionally, and in the case of Liebrandt, it will propel them. That is, until the next bad review. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the cinema or online.

Once again, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival will usher in autumn with the best cinema, music, and culture that the Palestinian and Arab World has to offer. Founded in 2008 to commemorate al-Nakba, the festival will this year take place between September 30 and October 7 in a variety of locations, but mainly at Jackman Hall in the AGO.

This week in film rounds up the most noteworthy independent screenings and cinema-related events happening in Toronto.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH / RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES / ROYAL CINEMA / 9PM
A documentary 10 years in the making, Resurrect Dead follows filmmaker Jon Foy as he explores the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, a curious street art project found from the east coast to the mid-west but centered in Philadelphia. The tiles would appear nondescript to those passing by inattentively, but have the same confusing message etched on each license-plate sized piece. Foy teams up with Toynbee-hunter Justin Duerr, who has been documenting the phenomenon since the mid-nineties and other 'tile enthusiasts' who each have their own theories about just how this mystery is going to play out. The film baffled and intrigued audience members at Sundance and Hot Docs earlier this year, and returns to Toronto at the Royal Cinema for a limited engagement. Tickets can be purchased at the theatre.

The Hoxton is a fitting venue to celebrate the launch of Billy Corbin's film Limelight. As the latest venue in a series of bars run by Richard Lambert and Jesse Girard (who are also behind Parts & Labour and former club The Social), The Hoxton represents a growing empire of boutique style clubs.

Limelight is also a story about building a club empire, albeit on a much larger scale than anything on West Queen West. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Peter Gatien and his New York Empire of nightclubs, and through that story, tells a bigger story of the rise and fall of the nightclub as incubator of underground culture.

Record Store Day, as many music fans know, was launched back in 2008 as a way to celebrate independent record shops and the role they play in delivering good music to fans across the globe. Over the four years it's been celebrated, Record Store Day has become a bigger and bigger event, marked by hundreds of special record releases and in-store performances from major bands.

TEDxToronto is today and one of the speakers I'm most looking forward to is the Eyeborg - Rob Spence. The last time we talked to Spence, he was Mr. Toronto, the on-screen director for Let's All Hate Toronto. While he's working on the sequel , Why do the Leafs suck so much?, Rob's also been gaining international attention for his documentary as Eyeborg, which was commissioned by Square Enix to celebrate the launch of their game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a prequel to their critically-acclaimed game Deus Ex.