PACHACÚTEC, THE IMPROBABLE SCHOOL
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 @ 6:00 P.M.
Instituto Cervantes New York
211 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017
ORIGINAL TITLE:
PACHACÚTEC, LA ESCUELA IMPROBABLE
DIRECTOR(S):
Mariano Carranza
COUNTRY:
USA, Peru
DATE COMPLETED:
2023
LENGTH OF FILM:
38 min
FILM CATEGORY:
Documentary
PRODUCER(S):
Mariano Carranza, Gastón Acurio, Irzio Pinasco, Karina Meier, Gaston Acurio
CAST:
Jhosmary Cáceres, Gerson Atalaya, Alan Larrea, Joan Roca, Ignacio Medina, Karina Montes Bravo, María Zúñiga, Victoriano López, Albert Adriá
In a remote, low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Lima is a school that the whims of fate decided should exist: The Pachacútec Cooking School. For more than 15 years the school has changed the lives of over 400 cooks, giving them a profession that has lifted them out of poverty while filling their lives with dreams, thus forging a new generation of Peruvian cooks.
This 40 minute documentary follows three young graduates, who now enjoy success in different parts of the world. In San Francisco, what started as an internship earned Jhosmery the position of pastry chef in a respected Peruvian restaurant. In Luxembourg, Gerson takes up the reins of a kitchen with modernist ambitions. And in Lima, Alan runs a successful ceviche business. All saw gastronomy as their chance to get ahead.
Mariano Carranza
Mariano Carranza is an Emmy-nominated director and producer. He specializes in documentaries with an emphasis on food, travel, identity, and culture. Mariano recently directed the Miami episode of the Netflix Show 'Street Food: USA,' which was on the Top 10 Netflix TV Shows in its first weeks out. He's currently a full-time freelancer and continues working with global companies like Lonely Planet, Bloomberg, Salesforce, and USA Today. His most recent film "Pachacútec, The Improbable School" was selected to the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He’s a proud alumni and film major of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he has since returned as a guest lecturer on documentary filmmaking. He loves to cook and has a growing collection of Latin American records.