El Club de los Cantineros
A century of cocktail history and Hispanic influence, told as a feature documentary and produced from Instituto Nauta.
Bartending is not a bar trade. It is an oral archive of emigration.
The history of the cocktail was told from the United States. The other half was missing: the Cuban, Spanish and Venezuelan bartenders who professionalised the trade, founded associations and carried their recipes from country to country fleeing wars and revolutions. The move was to treat the bar as a historical source, not as scenery.
Origin of the project
Tracing the bartender clubs and more than one hundred and twenty years of the trade, from Havana to Málaga and Florida.
Executive production
Financing, brand partnerships, international shoot coordination and production schedule.
Release and festivals
Poster, dossier, international listing and circuit strategy, with screenings in Málaga, St. Augustine and Hawaii.
Official film poster
Instituto Nauta, producing body