Feb 18, 2018 | Flynn McGarry [...]
Feb 18, 2018Flynn McGarry
The celebrity chef and protagonist of the documentary giving autographs.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Feb 18, 2018 | Flynn McGarry [...]
Feb 18, 2018Flynn McGarry
The celebrity chef and his team at work.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Feb 18, 2018 | Spiegelzelt [...]
Feb 18, 2018Spiegelzelt
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn – Festival Impressions
Feb 18, 2018 | Cameron Yates [...]
Feb 18, 2018Cameron Yates
The director at Spiegelzelt.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Feb 18, 2018 | Madeleine Jakits, Flynn McGarry, Cameron Yates [...]
Feb 18, 2018Madeleine Jakits, Flynn McGarry, Cameron Yates
The host, the celebrity chef and the director during the Q&A.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Feb 18, 2018 | Philipp Engelhorn, Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Laura Coxson, Hannah [...]
Feb 18, 2018Philipp Engelhorn, Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Laura Coxson, Hannah Buck, Cameron Yates
The film team at Spiegelzelt.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Feb 18, 2018 | Cameron Yates, Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry [...]
Feb 18, 2018Cameron Yates, Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry
The director with the celebrity chef and his mother.
Culinary Cinema – Chef Flynn
Chef Flynn captures the coming of age of a prodigy chef, as he navigates a sea of sudden fame, bullying, and his untraditional family dynamics. Flynn McGarry opened a supper club in the living room of his California home at ten years old, using his classmates as line cooks and serving a seasonal foraged tasting menu to wide-eyed guests. As the years pass by, Flynn grows both as a chef and teenager and eventually outgrows his family kitchen and his mother’s camera. Featuring over eighteen years of personal archival footage as well as intimate vérité, this portrait is not only the study of a rising star thrown into the media spotlight at an early age, but also a reflection on motherhood and what it means to give up one’s own identity in furtherance of a child’s passion.
by
Cameron Yates
USA 2018
English
Documentary form83’ · Colour
Flynn McGarryMeg McGarryParis McGarryWill McGarry
This American director and curator studied at New York University and has worked as the world cinema and documentary programmer for the Hamptons International Film Festival. His first short film 14 and Payrolled (2003) is a portrait of four teenagers working as pages for the Virginia House of Delegates. In 2009 he received the Garrett Scott Documentary Grant which is awarded to emerging, visionary documentary filmmakers. His debut feature documentary The Canal Street Madam about a successful madam who ran a brothel, premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Filmography2003 14 and Payrolled 2010 The Canal Street Madam 2012 The Making of Beasts of the Southern Wild 2018 Chef Flynn
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018

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