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Film-making is about having something to say…

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Film-making is about having something to say- something that can only be said in a film and not a short story, or a play, or a novel. ~Woody Allen

It’s been a while since the blog has been updated – but there has been a great deal of progress on the film. When your taking on a subject like coffee, you could focus in on a number of different topics, whether it’s the taste, the chemical reaction, the history, the beauty, or the injustice. You could say that coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world ( Oliver Strand would say your wrong…https://twitter.com/OliverStrand/status/317063705349201921), you could say “Baristas must be sexy” as Katsu Tanaka so eloquently said during our time together in Tokyo, and you could say that people are making a very large deal out of something as simple as coffee. What you can’t say is that coffee is not important, and you can’t say that people don’t care about coffee.

 

A Film About Coffee is just what it says in the title – a film about coffee, a film that is exploring the topic of coffee as a whole, as I see it. It’s my perspective, told by people that are trustworthy and people that have been working with coffee for some time now.

Tokyo, Japan

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Tokyo has become my favorite city. The fashion, the food, the people, and the incredibly intriguing coffee scene. Unless your really in to coffee you probably don’t know that a lot of the tools cafes are using come straight from Japan.  The Hario V-60, the Buono kettle the Syphon, the Woodneck Nel Drip, or the Kalita Wave all of the beautifully executed tools originate from the Land of the Rising Sun. In Tokyo, there are these secretive cafes tucked away in alleys behind shadows of skyscrapers where you can enjoy a cigarette, the daily paper and a very well executed drip coffee served in a porcelain tea cup. In “A film about coffee”  we will explore these cafes called ‘Kissaten’ and see how they may have influenced coffee culture around the world and how the scene in Tokyo is starting to reflect the coffee scene that you would find in other parts of the world.