A Taste of Sky

Culinary Cinema

"A Taste of Sky… raises issues about family life, ambition, and women’s opportunities while whetting the appetite with spectacular imagery – topographic as well as gastronomic"

Screen
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Michael Yuchen Lei
  • USA, Bolivia, Denmark 2019
  • 85 minutes
  • English, Spanish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Danish culinary entrepreneur and Noma co-founder Claus Meyer has kickstarted a gastronomic revolution in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz with the opening of Gustu, a fine-dining restaurant and cooking school for the country’s impoverished youth. Kenzo, a hunter raised in the Bolivian Amazon, and Maria Claudia, a native of the Andean altiplano, attempt to establish their country as the world’s next great culinary destination.

Feature-Length Debut

The screening will be followed by a conversation in the Festival Garden on: Cooking a Chance.
Speaker:  Chef Frank Azulay
Azulay was born in Paris and run with street gangs before being sent to a boarding school for youth at risk. Then came the move to Israel and the affair with its kitchens. Israel, New York, studios, a long career, ups, downs and one passionate chef looking at life with complete candor. Azulay will speak about his journey, about the meeting points of kitchen and street, and about the recipe that blends together the world of restaurateurs and youths at risk to create a winning dish.


  • Director Michael Yuchen Lei
  • Production Andrew Renzi, Kevin Iwashina, Michael Yuchen Lei, Abby Davis, Jess Kwan
  • Script Michael Yuchen Lei
  • Cinematography Jeffrey Louis Peterman
  • Editing Sofia Subercaseaux, Benjamin Wolin, Michael Yuchen Lei
  • Music John Carey
  • Festivals Tribeca, CPH:DOX
  • Source Cinephil, Tel Aviv