'Culinary Cinema' brings together some of the best and most intense food documentaries of recent years - truly must-sees in the elegant world of culinary art. The program offers 'Pressure Cooker', a Primetime Emmy nominated show about a no-nonsense cookery teacher attempting to land college scholarships for her underprivileged culinary course pupils; 'Kings of Pastry' about some of the world's leading pastry chefs competing for prestigious recognition in France; 'A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt' dealing with the controversial chef's journey in being the youngest chef to have ever been awarded 3 stars from the NY Times; and 'Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven' about restaurateur Sirio Maccioni struggling with the closing of his legendary restaurant and its subsequent re-opening.
'Culinary Cinema' is a program as part of SundanceNow's 'Doc Club'; a monthly series which presents some of the best and most influential documentaries. Esteemed documentary programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival Thom Powers curates these amazing packages which will cover a wide range of themes, arts and issues over the coming months. You can look forward to 'Ross McElwee Spotlight', August 2013's program featuring several of McElwee's finest works, and September's 'Fix This Planet' which needs little explanation.