Andrew Peat’s film could be a serviceable small-screen piece but suffers from romantic waffle and countryside cliches
If you’re prone to watching cookery programmes on Netflix, this would surely come up as a recommendation if the streamer ever acquired the rights. At a pinch, it would pass the time if you’ve seen every episode of Ugly Delicious, Chef’s Table and the like. But by the standards of current food docs (a genre enjoying a golden age), this is a bit of snoozefest. Andrew Peat structures things around Jim McEwan, a highly regarded distiller on the verge of retirement, working the barrels in the Bruichladdich distillery on Islay.
Switching between various industry talking heads chipping in about McEwan’s talent or filling in with information, the film walks us through the practice of making whisky, from mashing the barley to bottling. Some observations about flavour and process are incisive,...
If you’re prone to watching cookery programmes on Netflix, this would surely come up as a recommendation if the streamer ever acquired the rights. At a pinch, it would pass the time if you’ve seen every episode of Ugly Delicious, Chef’s Table and the like. But by the standards of current food docs (a genre enjoying a golden age), this is a bit of snoozefest. Andrew Peat structures things around Jim McEwan, a highly regarded distiller on the verge of retirement, working the barrels in the Bruichladdich distillery on Islay.
Switching between various industry talking heads chipping in about McEwan’s talent or filling in with information, the film walks us through the practice of making whisky, from mashing the barley to bottling. Some observations about flavour and process are incisive,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Distributor to partner with Munro Films on early 2019 theatrical release.
The UK’s Parkland Entertainment, the distribution arm of Parkland Pictures that launched last month, has struck a deal at Tiff with Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade for its first acquisition, taking rights to whisky documentary Scotch – A Golden Dream.
Parkland Entertainment will partner on an early 2019 theatrical release with Munro Films, with whom Parkland co-owner Tom Stewart worked while at Arrow Films, where he served as acquisitions director until his departure last June.
Andrew Peat directed Scotch – A Golden Dream, which tells of legendary distiller Jim McEwan, who began...
The UK’s Parkland Entertainment, the distribution arm of Parkland Pictures that launched last month, has struck a deal at Tiff with Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade for its first acquisition, taking rights to whisky documentary Scotch – A Golden Dream.
Parkland Entertainment will partner on an early 2019 theatrical release with Munro Films, with whom Parkland co-owner Tom Stewart worked while at Arrow Films, where he served as acquisitions director until his departure last June.
Andrew Peat directed Scotch – A Golden Dream, which tells of legendary distiller Jim McEwan, who began...
- 9/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Distributor to partner with Munro Films on early 2019 theatrical release.
The UK’s Parkland Entertainment, the distribution arm of Parkland Pictures that launched last month, has struck a deal at Tiff with Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade for its first acquisition, taking rights to whisky documentary Scotch – A Golden Dream.
Parkland Entertainment will partner on an early 2019 theatrical release with Munro Films, with whom Parkland co-owner Tom Stewart worked while at Arrow Films, where he served as acquisitions director until his departure last June.
Andrew Peat directed Scotch – A Golden Dream, which tells of legendary distiller Jim McEwan, who began...
The UK’s Parkland Entertainment, the distribution arm of Parkland Pictures that launched last month, has struck a deal at Tiff with Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade for its first acquisition, taking rights to whisky documentary Scotch – A Golden Dream.
Parkland Entertainment will partner on an early 2019 theatrical release with Munro Films, with whom Parkland co-owner Tom Stewart worked while at Arrow Films, where he served as acquisitions director until his departure last June.
Andrew Peat directed Scotch – A Golden Dream, which tells of legendary distiller Jim McEwan, who began...
- 9/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Scotch: A Golden Dream will screen to buyers at Afm.
Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade has hired Ryan Bury as director of global film sales and has introduced Tiff buyers to the whisky documentary Scotch: A Golden Dream.
Bury has been responsible for delivering theatrical marketing campaigns for Concourse and third-party clients through his ongoing role as a partner at Concourse’s in-house marketing firm, I&Co.
He is in Toronto where Concourse has been talking up Scotch: A Golden Dream, which outlines the scotch whisky industry and follows Jim McEwan, who started working at a whisky distillery at the...
Los Angeles-based Concourse Film Trade has hired Ryan Bury as director of global film sales and has introduced Tiff buyers to the whisky documentary Scotch: A Golden Dream.
Bury has been responsible for delivering theatrical marketing campaigns for Concourse and third-party clients through his ongoing role as a partner at Concourse’s in-house marketing firm, I&Co.
He is in Toronto where Concourse has been talking up Scotch: A Golden Dream, which outlines the scotch whisky industry and follows Jim McEwan, who started working at a whisky distillery at the...
- 9/10/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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