Six centuries of history.
One conversation at a bar.

What inspired this drink?

Bean Kick is a bottled espresso martini made in Poland. The idea was to look beyond the bottle and show how vodka and coffee, each with its own long history, eventually came together in the drink.

We built the film around a woman trying it and asking the bartender what inspired it. His answer takes us from Poland to Italy, London and Guatemala, with an animated timeline marking the dates and places before we return to the bar.

As the script developed, the tone moved from dry comedy toward a warmer story about the drink's origins. The ending brings the conversation full circle: she answers him with his own opening line, How much time you got?

We worked out the film before the shoot.

Before filming, we made the entire commercial in AI, including the bar scenes and dialogue. We used that complete version to work through the shots and how the conversation played, so we could arrive on set with scenes we had already worked out. Even the bar reference was adjusted for the shoot: we removed the venue name so it would not tie the scenes to a location we might not use.

That made the shoot easier. The AI film was our reference for recreating the shots with actors, with fewer decisions left to work out on set. The location and performances brought their own character to the scenes. These comparisons show the same moments in both versions.