FILM AND COOK

 Tickets on sale soon at: www.filmandcook.com/ Film & Cook, festival returns for its third expanded instalment over two venues, in Madrid and Barcelona, with a new competitive section.   Some cutlery wrapped in bootlaces, the image is strangely familiar to us, but this is no coincidence. It is a nod to Chaplin’s masterpiece The Gold Rush which has become the icon, in which Film & Cook was born out of, and remains in a film festival of gastronomic cinema which aims to become a culinary must for all lovers of film, gastronomy, and innovative festivals.   In its third edition, Film & Cook will be held in two cities for the first time, Madrid and Barcelona. The festival aims to reach a larger audience and its programme will travel to both locations. Cineteca Madrid in the multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre in Matadero Madrid will intermingle cooking and celluloid together for two weekends. The first will be on the 9^th and 10^th of November, this will be the kick off point for Film & Cook with the completion of the programme on the 16^th and 17^th of November.   Something else new in this edition is the inclusion of a competitive section. Film & cook will make a selection from screenings of those that participate in its best short film and best feature film (documentary or fiction) competition. The excitement will carry on until the last day of the festival in the Madrilenian location, when the winners’ names will be announced.   If we take a closer look at Film & Cook’s programme, we come across the names of central figures of the national culinary scene. . Albert Adrià, Quique Dacosta, Ramón Freixa, Angel León, Andoni Luis Aduriz, David Muñoz and Rodrigo de la Calle among others, who form part of the selection of Cooks and who will present their own gastronomic tapes in one of the festival’s screenings. In the competitive selection, Films, will bring together the international cinematic productions that are most representative of the current moment. In addition to this, in its striving forward toward innovation, Film & Cook has created a new selection in which you will be able to see a surprising combination of classical cinema and modern mixology. We will be in the hands of four of the country’s best bartenders, Diego Cabrera, Alberto Pizarro, Sergio Padilla and Héctor Henche, Schweppes has designed four unique cocktails, inspired by four classic films that will be screened at the end of each day: Casablanca, The Gold Rush, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate).   Furthermore, Film & Cook also has a social profile and collaborates with “Cocina Conciencia”, a grass roots project that aims to promote the employment and social inclusion of young people, both Spanish people and immigrants, who are without an adult role model and in a vulnerable situation in the restaurant sector through the creation of networks between them and chefs.   View all programme information here: http://www.filmandcook.com/