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Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (The)

Country: Canada, Language: English, 75 mins

  • Director: Maya Gallus
  • Writer: Maya Gallus
  • Producer: Maya Gallus

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Feminist documentary with a daring queer lesbian touch.

Restaurant kitchens are a pressure cooker of killer hours, high stress and very little sleep. They are a notoriously macho environment, known around the world thanks to chefs-turned-celebrities and their reality shows. Now, it’s time for change. The tide turns right here with a torrent of women leading the world’s most successful restaurants – a young generation of female chefs who will not conform and instead, write a new rulebook for the “kitchen culture”, and be at the helm of a revolution transforming the culinary world.

The film takes the viewers behind the scenes where they meet the pioneers who have smashed through the glass ceiling. Featuring Anne-Sophie Pic (nicknamed “Queen of French Cuisine”), Angela Hartnett (formerly a Gordon Ramsey protégé) of Murano, and award-winning lesbian New York chef, Anita Lo (whose iconic NYC restaurant Annisa, is closing down after 17 years).

Interviewed alongside these powerhouses are up-and-coming chefs who discuss their daily struggles and take us on a fascinating, entertaining, and appetite-whetting journey into a culinary world made up entirely of extraordinary, talented women.


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Cast & Characters

Suzanne Barr
Victoria Blarney
Amanda Cohen
Angela Hartnett
Ivy Knight
Charlotte Langley
Anita Lo
Anne-Sophie Pic