Now, Forager, billed as "A film about love and fungi", presents the story of a couple, Regina (Tiffany Esteb) and Lucien (Jason Cortlund, who also wrote and co-directed), who forage for wild mushrooms in forests and sell them door to door to Manhattan restaurants.

[5] The original screenplay was also by Cortlund, himself an amateur mycologist and member of the New York Mycological Society.

[citation needed][9] It also won the Audience Award and a Theater Owners' Recommendation at the 2012 International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.

Now, Forager had its World Premiere at the 2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam,[6][10] and was distributed in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg by Imagine Films Distribution (theatrical, 2013), Filmfreak Distributie (DVD, 2013), and Film1 (television, 2014) under the alternate title Love & Fungi.

[citation needed][11] The film was distributed in theaters and on television in Poland under the title Tam, gdzie rosna grzyby The Kaunas International Film Festival also released Now, Forager in theaters in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.