The Jakarta based film production house that established in 2008, Visinema Pictures once again updated their YouTube channel with not just one but two exclusive videos featuring the book author Dewi ‘Dee’ Lestari and its talented director Angga Dwimas Sasongko. Throughout the videos, you could see how both Dewi and Angga shares their passion in a cup of coffee, what coffee means for them, the motivation to starts making a story about coffee, the reason for choosing the title “Filosofi Kopi“, how to write obsessive character and its polar figure, their involvement in the film, the inspiration story about coffee plantations in Indonesia, how to adopt a novel book to be a movie, to their high hopes for the Indonesian audience. For those of you who are a fan of the “Filosofi Kopi”, the movie will be aired first across Indonesia on April 9th 2015. For more information, you can simply visit their official site here or read the description below.
The film “Filosofi Kopi” is produced by Visinema Pictures. It is not just a film that tells about the journey of someone’s life, but it will also opens new perspective about Indonesian coffee and its rich culture. Angga Dwimas Sasongko explained that people should able to find his or her identity through the medium of coffee, soon after they saw the movie. This film is produced by Glenn Fredly and Anggia Kharisma and played by Chicco Jerikho as Ben and Rio Dewanto as Jody. It tells the story of friendship, love, soul searching, and how to deal with the past through a cup of coffee. It is based on Ben and Jody, who build a coffee shop called Filosofi Kopi, later known as a leading coffee shop in Jakarta (popularly known because they support and provide the best coffee beans from Indonesia). The challenge to create the perfect coffee brought them on an adventure that is full of bitterness yet unforgettable.