Saturday, 21 June 2025

The Works

Economy

Finca La Puebla – The People Who Make Our Coffee

The best thing about our job is also travelling. And learning on every journey, every job somehow expands your own horizons. I was never a big coffee drinker. Now I even know a lot about him. It hangs from the bush as a cherry and is picked by hand at Finca La Puebla. The locals...
Finance

1 Is Important To Me – Inge

A road trip through Germany with the American blogger Foster Huntington. The result are 35 short portraits about people, starting on the Zugspitze, ending in northern Germany at the Amrum lighthouse. With us we took a simple but not so easy question: What is important to you? The Allianz campaign challenged people to think about...
Culture

The Heavy Metal Watchmaker

Dan Spitz, who played lead guitar for the metal band Anthrax, left the group in the ’90s to pursue an unexpected path: master watchmaking. Now, he’s one of the top watchmakers in the world, but can still shred a guitar like it’s 1983. Does your company have the courage to make fundamental changes?
Science

One Step At A Time

When Mosha, an elephant, was two years old, she lost her leg in a landmine injury along the Thai-Burmese border. Luckily, an orthopedic surgeon was able to fit her with the first prosthetic leg ever designed for an elephant. As she’s grown, she’s needed to be fitted for new ones. But she’s never forgotten the...
Social Life

Dirt Is Good

Named ‘Pick of the Week’ in Campaign Magazine and generating headlines worldwide, ‘Free the Kids’ spearheaded Persil/Omo’s “Dirt is Good” campaign to encourage children to spend more time outdoors. Set in a maximum-security prison in Indiana USA, and filmed under strict documentary conditions, it features the powerful first-hand testimony of the prisoners, who volunteered to...
Health

The Big Blue

Documentary short for Nicorette focusing on Daan Verhoeven, who went from smoking a pack a day to becoming a record breaking free diver. Daan can hold his breath underwater for six minutes two seconds. How much can you move with a strong will?
Economy

100 Days Of Dark

A truly dark campaign, revolving around three drivers on the Island of Svalbard, just below the North Pole. The film shows just how dark and tough life can be in the Arctic Circle during the long Polar Night. For over 100 days straight they live and work in total darkness, at temperatures that regularly dip...
Job Life

Akihiko – The Japanese Astronaut

A dream project! When do the doors of NASA open so easily for you? When will you get the chance to shake hands with a real astronaut again? Akihiko Hoshide, a wonderful, humorous, clever person. I could have listened to him for hours, days .. unfortunately his packed schedule did not allow this. I will...
Culture

Noma 2.0 – Reinventing The Best Restaurant In The World

Chef-owner René Redzepi shuttered his award-winning restaurant to rethink everything. Hours before the first meal at the new Noma, the chef isn’t cooking. He’s on his hands and knees in the main dining room frantically working a vacuum cleaner. Mr. Redzepi, 40, who became a world-famous chef with the success of his first iteration of...
Statement

The Problem With Message Movies

Film, and by extension commercials, can be a powerful force to push social change for the better. This is a wonderful thing. As a filmmaker myself, it should be a point of pride. So why is that when I hear noble work like this described with proclamations such as “a beautiful social message that everyone...
Society

The Concrete Cowboys Of Philadelphia

For the past decade, Malik Divers has run a small Philadelphia stable where he trains teenagers to ride and keep horses. Divers says that the horses keep kids off the streets and teach them responsibility. For 18-year-old Shahir Drayton, riding has even become an essential form of therapy. How socially committed is your company?
Social Life

Get Adopted, Two Are Less Alone

One of my first movies. For my photo everything was set up and clear .. and I liked the individual settings very much. We quickly ordered a film camera to our set and I simply filmed every shot as well. That’s how one of my first movies came out. Before that I worked exclusively as...