BAR
Don Hardy (Pick of the Litter, SIFF 2018) returns to Seattle with this perfect cocktail of a documentary, focusing on students participating in the Culinary Institute of America’s BAR (Beverage Alcohol Resource) 5-Day Program, hoping to be some of the world’s greatest mixologists.
Director Don Hardy scheduled to attend.
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Monday, May 26 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
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BAR follows five ambitious students who embark on the challenge to be named as top of their craft by completing the Culinary Institute of America's BAR 5-Day Program. Directed by filmmaker Don Hardy (SIFF 2018’s Pick of the Litter), BAR tells the story of the workers in the hospitality industry through the elite competitive cocktail competition. Hopeful to become "Bar Ready"—a certification that deems a bartender is able to step behind any bar in the world to craft any cocktail with mastery—students immerse themselves in the five-day intensive program to become the top of their industry. BAR is a humanistic glimpse into the hospitality workers who care to connect beyond the drinks, showing us that excellent hospitality is about more than just pouring drinks. This documentary demonstrates the gathering for a collective goal and the community that emerges from shared passions under challenge and camaraderie.
—Aly Shwedo
- Director: Don Hardy
- Principal Cast: Jessica Pomerantz, Ryan Smith, Michael Paley, Arianna Hone, Paige Walwyn
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 89 min.
- Producer: Don Hardy, Shawn Dailey
- Screenplay: Don Hardy
- Cinematographers: Don Hardy, Mike Abela, Lucas Millard, Vanessa Carr, Rob Featherstone, Marie-Joelle Rizk, David Sampliner
- Editors: Camille Geetz
- Music: Tom Boykin
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Linda Perry: Let It Die Here (2024), Citizen Penn (2020), Pick of the Litter (2018), Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents (2015)
- Language: English
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: KTF Films