Italian Chefs Documentary Series

An original documentary series based on an idea by:
Daniele Di Pietro and Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Written and Directed by:
Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Cinematography by:
Daniele Di Pietro
Running time: 12 and 26 minutes
Format: HD

 

 

 

The series Italian Chefs aims to promote the cuisine and territory of Italy to viewers abroad. Each group of episodes will focus on special local features of the specific region being explored, offering an overview of the state of the culinary art in Italy, region by region.

The first group of five episodes is set in the Lazio region, which includes the capital city of Rome. The aim is to continue the series with additional episodes to cover all the incredible and unique regions of Italy.

FORMAT
Italian Chefs has a short series format.
The first five episodes are ’12 and ’26 minutes long.

The dialogue is light and elegantly accompanied by very precise cinematic images. Included are: aerial footage of each location, slow motion tracking shots during recipe preparation, mouth-watering close-up shots of ingredients and of course perfectly plated final dishes. The interviews with the chefs are done with great attention to detail, along the lines of the Netflix series “Chef’s Table.”

The beginning of each episode is characterized by a quintessential sentence spoken by the chef about their cooking philosophy paired with slow-motion images showing their other main passion in life besides cooking, which is always something interesting and often unexpected like surfing or playing in a punk band.

For each of the chefs that we follow, there will be testimonials from their wives, husbands, relatives or very close collaborators who will give an external point of view about the chef.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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