In 2007, when Dieter Kosslick launched the Berlinale’s inventive Culinary Cinema section, it had been simmering in the back of his mind for decades.
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Scandinavia, China among buyers. Kino Lorber holds Us rights.
Cinetic International has announced a raft of deals at the recent Afm on Cameron Yates’s documentary and Sundance world premiere Chef Flynn.
Rights have gone for Scandinavia (NonStop), Canada (Blue Ice), China (Dd-Dream), Israel (Channel 8), Poland (Films for Food), and airlines (Terry Steiner).
Cinetic International expects to announce further deals shortly on the film about 10-year-old Flynn McGarry, a homemade culinary whizz who turned his living room into a supper club, used his classmates as line cooks, and served a tasting menu containing ingredients from his neighbours’ backyards.
As his fame grows,...
Cinetic International has announced a raft of deals at the recent Afm on Cameron Yates’s documentary and Sundance world premiere Chef Flynn.
Rights have gone for Scandinavia (NonStop), Canada (Blue Ice), China (Dd-Dream), Israel (Channel 8), Poland (Films for Food), and airlines (Terry Steiner).
Cinetic International expects to announce further deals shortly on the film about 10-year-old Flynn McGarry, a homemade culinary whizz who turned his living room into a supper club, used his classmates as line cooks, and served a tasting menu containing ingredients from his neighbours’ backyards.
As his fame grows,...
- 11/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
At a time when so many biographical documentaries feel more like advertisements for their subjects than they do pieces of art in their own right, it’s pretty surprising that Cameron Yates’ “Chef Flynn” is one of the few recent films to buck the trend. On the surface, it seems like it has the makings of an insufferable cinematic puff piece: This is the story of wünderkind chef Flynn McGarry, a cute little kid with a carrot-colored pompadour who transformed the living room of his mother’s Los Angeles home into a Michelin-worthy supper club when he was only 10 years old. The kitchen staff was adorable, the food was delicious, and the hook was catchy enough to earn national attention.
First there was a brief piece in the New Yorker. That was followed by a major profile in the Times Magazine, which led to a blitz of talk show appearances,...
First there was a brief piece in the New Yorker. That was followed by a major profile in the Times Magazine, which led to a blitz of talk show appearances,...
- 11/9/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
"This pressure is part of this business." Kino Lorber has debuted an official trailer for an indie documentary titled Chef Flynn, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and also played at the SXSW, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Nashville, Sydney, and Nantucket Film Festivals. Chef Flynn is about a prodigy chef from California named Flynn McGarry, who has been running his own kitchen since he was a child. He's now in his teens and is planning to open his own restaurant in New York City. But this film tells the story of who he is, and how his parents supported him to follow his dreams, and become the best chef he can be. Pairing his mother Meg's exhaustive home videos with intimate vérité footage, director Cameron Yates creates a collage of Flynn's singular focus and one-of-a-kind childhood. This is a "uniquely comprehensive portrait" of a young star's rise as seen from the inside.
- 9/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kino Lorber has acquired all U.S. rights to Cameron Yates’ documentary feature, “Chef Flynn,” for theatrical release in November followed by VOD and home video release late next winter.
“Chef Flynn” had its world premiere at 2018 Sundance Film Festival and its international premiere at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in February. It was also an official selection at SXSW this year.
The movie is directed by Cameron Yates, produced by Laura Coxson, executive produced by Philipp Engelhorn, and edited by Hannah Buck, with original music from Brooklyn-based electro-pop band Holy Ghost!
“Chef Flynn” centers on chef prodigy Flynn McGarry who started his culinary career at age 10, transforming his California living room into a restaurant using his classmates as line cooks and serving a tasting menu foraged from his neighbors’ backyards. The supper club, Eureka, eventually operated as pop-ups in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
With sudden...
“Chef Flynn” had its world premiere at 2018 Sundance Film Festival and its international premiere at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in February. It was also an official selection at SXSW this year.
The movie is directed by Cameron Yates, produced by Laura Coxson, executive produced by Philipp Engelhorn, and edited by Hannah Buck, with original music from Brooklyn-based electro-pop band Holy Ghost!
“Chef Flynn” centers on chef prodigy Flynn McGarry who started his culinary career at age 10, transforming his California living room into a restaurant using his classmates as line cooks and serving a tasting menu foraged from his neighbors’ backyards. The supper club, Eureka, eventually operated as pop-ups in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
With sudden...
- 6/21/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
As with many people, Chef Flynn director Cameron Yates first learned about teen chef Flynn McGarry through a New Yorker Profile. “There was a talk-of-the-town piece called ‘Prodigy’ about this kid who was foraging in his neighbor's backyards and doing these crazy multiple-course tasting menus in his mother's living room in Studio City, California,” Yates told Deadline, appearing at SXSW today with producer Laura Coxson and McGarry, his documentary subject. “I was…...
- 3/12/2018
- Deadline
By Peter BelsitoI liked this Sundance film and have never seen anything like it before.The film intimately follows the budding career of teenager Flynn McGarry, the California chef and wunderkind who was creating hot-ticket tasting menu dinners at 12 and working under some of the world’s most celebrated chefs at 13.
Beyond the shots of luscious dishes, there’s a pretty interesting character study here as well.
The doc starts with home movie 2014 footage of a young teenage Flynn in the woods, foraging for things most people wouldn’t recognize as food. “How cool is this?!” he enthuses holding up leaves and twigs he’s picked from the ground
Back home in La, he’s throwing a dinner at a restaurant he calls Eureka, aka the house he lives in with his mother Meg.
By this point, he has already been the subject of a “Talk of the Town” New...
Beyond the shots of luscious dishes, there’s a pretty interesting character study here as well.
The doc starts with home movie 2014 footage of a young teenage Flynn in the woods, foraging for things most people wouldn’t recognize as food. “How cool is this?!” he enthuses holding up leaves and twigs he’s picked from the ground
Back home in La, he’s throwing a dinner at a restaurant he calls Eureka, aka the house he lives in with his mother Meg.
By this point, he has already been the subject of a “Talk of the Town” New...
- 2/4/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Cameron Yates' documentary Chef Flynn, about teenage culinary sensation Flynn McGarry, will open this year's Culinary Cinema, the sidebar of food-themed films that runs during the Berlin International Film Festival.
The documentary had its premiere at Sundance and will kick off the Berlin event on Feb.18 with its international premiere. McGarry will attend Berlin and, on Feb. 22, take part in the festival's Youth Food Cinema day, cooking together with Berlin school kids.
The menu for the 12th Culinary Cinema sidebar, held under the motto “life is delicate,” includes a further eight documentaries and a single feature —...
The documentary had its premiere at Sundance and will kick off the Berlin event on Feb.18 with its international premiere. McGarry will attend Berlin and, on Feb. 22, take part in the festival's Youth Food Cinema day, cooking together with Berlin school kids.
The menu for the 12th Culinary Cinema sidebar, held under the motto “life is delicate,” includes a further eight documentaries and a single feature —...
- 1/24/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Flynn McGarry began hosting his own supper club when he was 11 years old. Now 19, the teen chef has fascinated readers of the New York Times Magazine, Time and food blogs the world over. McGarry is the subject of Chef Flynn, the second feature doc from director Cameron Yates (The Canal Street Madam). Yates hired Hannah Buck to edit Chef Flynn alongside consulting editors Amy Foote and Shannon Kennedy. Below, Buck discusses how she sought to move the film away from talking heads and voiceover narration and toward “a more vérité approach.” Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up […]...
- 1/23/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Being a prodigy can be tough. Even if your parents aren't the kind of taskmasters who insist on overachievement to the exclusion of fun, you're almost certain to be resented by the less talented kids around you and the older pros who don't see what all the fuss is about. In the involving and mouthwatering Chef Flynn, Cameron Yates follows the budding career of Flynn McGarry, the California wunderkind who was creating hot-ticket tasting menu dinners at 12 and working under some of the world's most celebrated chefs at 13. The Food Network crowd will go nuts for the doc,...
- 1/23/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Flynn McGarry began his culinary career throwing dinner parties at the age of 10 in his living room. A few years later, he relocated into some of the most famous kitchens in the world before he could legally drive a car.
He has worked at Alinea in Chicago and Eleven Madison Park in New York, among other renowned eateries, and has headed his own pop-ups in New York.
The teenage gourmet has already graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine and now, at 19, finds himself as the subject of a documentary, titled Chef Flynn, which tracks his beginnings and everything that follows...
He has worked at Alinea in Chicago and Eleven Madison Park in New York, among other renowned eateries, and has headed his own pop-ups in New York.
The teenage gourmet has already graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine and now, at 19, finds himself as the subject of a documentary, titled Chef Flynn, which tracks his beginnings and everything that follows...
- 1/16/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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