Documentary Screening:

Chef's Table (episodes 2 & 6)

(dirs. Clay Jeter (ep. 2) and Brian McGinn (ep. 6), 2015, 50 min/episode = 100 min total, USA, in English, Color, Digital) 

-- Q&A to follow with filmmaker Brian McGinn '07!

Episodes to be screened:

Episode 2: Dan Barber (Blue Hill Restaurant at Stone Barns and in New York City, USA) - executive producer: Brian McGinn

Episode 6: Magnus Nilsson (Fäviken in Järpen, Sweden) - director: Brian McGinn

Chef's Table is a documentary series that goes inside the lives and kitchens of six of the world's most renowned international chefs. Each episode focuses on a single chef and their unique look at their lives, talents and passion from their piece of culinary heaven.

About the filmmaker:

Brian McGinn (Trinity '07, F/V/D Certificate) is a comedy and documentary film director based in Los Angeles. While studying at Duke University, he made a short film based on a Nick Hornby short story (Otherwise Pandemonium), as well as a number of short documentaries under the tutelage of Gary Hawkins and Josh Gibson. In 2012, his film The Record Breaker, about Ashrita Furman, the man with the most Guinness World Records of all time, won the Audience Award at Durham's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2011, he co-directed the feature film American Teacher, narrated by Matt Damon. He also directs viral comedy and branded content for Funny or Die, including the popular You're So Hot series starring Dave Franco and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. He is currently directing a new feature film, as well as directing and executive producing Chef's Table, Netflix's first Original Documentary Series.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image