Furthermore Damiano Szifron -integrates the Jury that will assign the Golden Palm on Saturday-, Lysander Alonso – presented his sixth film here in the Cannes Première section, eurekawith Viggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni- and Rodrigo Moreno – competes in Un Certain Regard with The criminalswith Esteban Bigliardi- there are more Argentines in Cannes.
Enjoying good friends, this is Sebastián García, a 38-year-old bartender who arrived after a selection and who created Campari content for social networks with Zaira Nara.
“I have been working for some years as an ambassador for Campari Argentina, which is one of the leading beverage brands in the world. Campari selected five bartenders from all over the world, among them they chose me, so we arrived on the 16th and we were with a bartender from Paris, one from Hong Kong, one from San Francisco, one from Italy and me in representation of Argentina.
The other day we presented each of us with a cocktail. Everyone had to create a recipe, a recipe inspired by cinema, and honestly, modesty aside, yesterday they confirmed to me that my cocktail was the one that was drunk the most during the event,” she says.
-What inspired you for your cocktail?
-When I create a recipe I try to think of everything, the weather, the flavours, the type of public, when we’re going to drink it, whether it’s an aperitif or a cocktail for the whole event. So I’m super happy, living what I’ve always dreamed of, not only being in Cannes, but also representing my country, sharing with other colleagues around the world, being able to add sparkle to brands that trust me (See recipe and inspiration below.).
-What did you do in particular here in Cannes?
We were on the red carpet, we saw the movie Monster, from Kore-eda, very impressive. Then we went to the Campari lounge, where we presented the cocktail. The crazy thing is that, in the Palis des Festivals, above the Sala, on the fourth floor, Campari has created an incredible lounge, representing the Camparino in Milan.
There we presented the cocktails and made notes and interviews for different international media. It’s the second year of Campari, and we are the first bartenders to initiate this concept of representing a beverage brand in Cannes, being on the red carpet. We took photos, we lived the experience of anyone who comes to attend this event that is Cannes.
-What is the strangest drink you have been asked for?
-Honestly, in these kind of events, since there is a mix of people, countries, flavours, I think people are open to drink anything. Yesterday I was preparing some cocktails at Armani Caffe, and I realized that the flavors are super versatile. It struck me that here in France people always drink a lot, at any hour.
Something that I celebrate as a bartender, always responsibly, but I like that here people drink at any time of day and it’s wonderful because you can see that the bartenders are active here, from morning to night. People are open to trying everything, and this concept of consuming bitter drinks surprised me, because it allows you to open up the range of flavors and to be able to create and think of any kind of recipe.
-Have you noticed that here in Cannes there is another kind of movement, or requests?
-First of all, my style has always been elegant, both for my work and for my daily life, so I feel very at ease, I feel that the city dresses up for a gala. I have noticed that people are always super dressed. In my case, for the red carpet I designed a kind of kimono dress, since we were going to see the Japanese film, and I did it together with the designer of a brand called Negra, which is from Castelar, where I come from .
-The cocktail is called Castelar Cannes…
-Everything has a bit to do with this communication thing. I’m at one of the most important festivals in the world, the whole world is watching us, but at the same time I wanted to bring a bit of my neighborhood to these places. I created a cocktail in Cannes called Castelar Cannes, but hey, it’s part of my identity, I like to go back to my roots and show a little bit of that side and always show elegance.
We had a super warm welcome, they always made us feel very good and I celebrate that, I am very excited that people welcome us with so much affection and make us feel important when it comes to the role of bartender, the bartender, today has an international weight. And for me, what’s better than representing Argentina in this festival, it’s a great joy and I hope I have met the expectations.
Castle Cannes
Garnish: scent of roses and aloe vera and blue organic flowers.
Crystal: coupe.
Technique: shake.
“The cocktail is inspired by the improvised cinema in my hometown, Castelar -he says-. I remember the summer afternoons when we met friends, drank natural citrus juice in a park surrounded by flowers and got ready to go to the Cinema Club. An enormous room, a sea of chairs and a curtain hanging a small soccer field. That was my CINEMA.
Castelar Cannes not only represents this wonderful memory of movies, friends and citrus, but its colors (red for Campari, white for foam and blue for flowers) represent the French flag in gratitude for this moment, this inspiration and this delight”.
More Argentines
In settlersFelipe Gálvez’s first film, a co-production with Chile that competes in Un Certain Regard, appear in short characters Luis Machín (a Chilean priest) and Mariano Llinás (in charge of marking the borders) And there are other Argentines around here.
Producer Gabriel Kaplan is in the production of Inside the yellow cocoon shellby the Vietnamese Thien An Pham, which will premiere this Wednesday 24 May at the Quinzaine des Cineas, and is in competition, as a debut film, for the Golden Camera of all Cannes.
Kaplan has also produced previously Mediterraneanwith Sergi López.
La Fabrique Cinéma is instead a program organized by the Institut Français as part of the Cannes Film Festival to promote the co-production of 10 films directed by emerging directors, with promising careers, coming from the so-called “southern countries”. .
And this year he was selected days off, which will be the first feature film by Argentine director Lucila Mariani, a project that has already been screened in international festivals and venues such as Locarno, Mar del Plata, Rotterdam, BFI, MoMA and Lincoln Center. It is a Maravillacine production (Leandro Listorti and Paula Zyngierman).
The film stars Bego, a 10-year-old girl who lives in a suburban area of Buenos Aires, and the story explores how the economic crisis impacts her life, as she takes advantage of the instability of her home to explore the limits of good and wrong evil, in search of an identity by exploring the vast world of the Internet. The film explores different genres, from comedy to magical realism and even horror.
Here in Cannes the project has been the subject of several script tutorials and there have been co-production meetings to advance the financing process.
Source: Clarin
