“Awe-inspiring and mouth-watering.”
— LA Times
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution
by Maya Gallus • 2018 • 72’ • Canada
Credits
Director / Producer:
Maya Gallus
Producer:
Howard Fraiberg
It takes a brazen personality to excel in the competitive world of professional cooking. A woman can only ascend the ranks if she can take the heat. Meet seven women chefs at the forefront of a “revolution,” including Chef Anne Sophie Pic of Maison Pic, the only three-Michelin starred female chef in France and one of only a handful in the world; Chef Angela Hartnett of Murano, London, a two-Michelin starred chef who survived Gordon Ramsay’s kitchens to become his first female protége; and Iron Chef and Top Chef Master Anita Lo of Annisa, NYC, who led the first all-female team to beat Iron Chef America Mario Batalion.
Festivals
HotDocs 2018
– Opening Night Film
Berlinale Culinary Cinema 2019
– Opening Film
San Sebastian Culinary Cinema 2018 [European Premiere]
Traverse City Film Festival 2018
Hot Springs Film Festival 2018
DocNYC 2018
Santa Barbara Film Festival 2019
Seoul Women’s Film Festival 2018
Bergen Film Festival 2018
St Louis International Film Festival 2018
BAFICI 2019
Reviews
“Awe-inspiring and mouth-watering.”
— LA Times
“Timely and affecting.”
— The Hollywood Reporter
“The film gives us women who are intelligent, articulate, hard-working while offering interesting insights into how they run their kitchens in a distinctly female way.”
— Toronto Star
“The film offers the warm comforting appeal of foodie flicks—one of the most appetizing branches of documentary—while bringing serious business to the table.”
— POV Magazine
Filmmaker’s Biography
Maya Gallus is an award-winning filmmaker who has been honoured at HotDocs 2017 with a Focus On mid-career retrospective of her work, which explores “a female gaze” (across gender spectrums) through a contemporary lens. Her works include: the award-winning docufiction, ELIZABETH SMART: ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS (TIFF 1991); EROTICA: A JOURNEY INTO FEMALE SEXUALITY (TIFF 1997), which was nominated for several awards, including the Genie for Best Feature-Length Doc; PUNCH LIKE A GIRL, a six-part series on amateur women’s boxing co-directed and co-produced with her partner, Justine Pimlott, with whom she received a Gemini nomination for Best Direction; GIRL INSIDE (HotDocs 2007), which won the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary and was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social Political Documentary; DISH: WOMEN, WAITRESSING & THE ART OF SERVICE (HotDocs 2010); docufiction piece THE MYSTERY OF MAZO DE LA ROCHE (HotDocs 2012), which received a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Social Issue Documentary; and the fan favourite DERBY CRAZY LOVE (RIDM 2013) co-directed with Justine Pimlott.
