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New documentary celebrates Armenian, Japanese, African barbecue


PanArmenian.Net
27 Sep 2016

PanARMENIAN.Net - Australian filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker into an adventure of a lifetime as they catalogued the one thing that links almost every culture in the world, including Armenians: barbecue, The Adelaide Review reports.

"Barbecue" will be submitted to festivals in the coming months, with a wider release coming in 2017.

Visiting 12 countries over nine months, Tucker and Salleh delved deep into the world's myriad barbecue cultures to produce their diverse, humorous and inspiring documentary, "Barbeque", about the bonds forged between people over meat and fire.

Counting on her fingers, Tucker names the places they visited: "We did, in order, Sweden, The Philippines, Mongolia, then South Africa, Armenia, a refugee camp on the border of Syria and Jordan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and then finished it off this year with Uruguay, Mexico," and went back to Texas, where the idea of making such a film had occurred to the helmers.

In a conversation with The Adelaide Review, Tucker and Salleh were bursting with stories from their carnivorous odyssey. One quirky tale comes from one of the first countries selected to visit: Armenia.

"We were picking what countries we were going to go to, and we saw this video of this old man talking about Armenian barbecue, saying things like 'Armenian barbecue is best barbecue,'" Salleh says. "His daughter had posted it online and gotten five million views or whatever. We thought it was hilarious. We just messaged them, his daughter lived in Melbourne. We skyped him and he arranged a room for us in Armenia."

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