“AeroPress: Be Water, My Friend” Matheo Fernandes

Beyond the Short Official Premiere

A poignant journey towards water awareness, with a unique, Brazilian aesthetic.

Spot for the Brazilian AeroPress Championship 2022

What would our forests be like if we let their waters evaporate?

Our character's journey into the unconscious, a place of lush water, is so deep and lasting that when he emerges back into reality, he finds, beyond his empty kettle, a world devastated by human folly. Both the water and the forests are gone forever.

It is a direct analogy of how the environmental impact on the water cycle, along with destructive agribusiness, puts the ecosystem in check. It is important that we understand our responsibility to water. Much is already happening due to the irrational interference of Brazilian agribusiness, which feeds everyone else in the world except its own people, cutting down our forests for the benefit of foreign capital, with inconsequential neoliberal policies.

Brazil, its forests and its waters are not for sale. So let's be aware of our attitudes towards the environment in which we live. #WeCanPlantWater


CREDITS

Produced by 3rd Wave Coffee Consultancy

Written & Directed by Matheo

Starring Jens Steinicke as Guima

EP's // Eystein Veflingstad & Matheo

DP // Bruno Pacine

2nd Unit Director // Lucas Tomaz Neves

Editor // Matheo & Lucas Tomaz Neves

Sound design & Mix // Thacio Palanca

Color Grading // Matheo

Special Thanks // Dri Cobra & family

Shot in Três Corações & São Thomé das Letras, Minas Gerais, Brazil


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