The Passionate Harvest
Bellissimo Media Productions
An historic video for the specialty coffee industry! This 60-minute video is the definitive film chronicling coffee from seed to cup.
Shot in Guatemala, Brazil, Kona and Ethiopia, The The Passionate Harvest takes a detailed look at the inner workings of the diverse processes involved in coffee production, emphasizing the enormous amount of effort and care required to produce quality coffee, and highlighting some of the issues and decision points that affect final cup quality and character.
reviews:
The Passionate Harvest may be one of the most important videos ever
produced about coffee. It allows viewers to travel around the world
from their armchairs and learn about, as well as appreciate, the
thousands of steps and man hours that go into the production of the
brew known as specialty coffee.
Bruce Milletto | President | Bellissimo, Inc.
Director | The Passionate Harvest
The specialty coffee industry is in the process of creating a genuine
global coffee community, in which producers and consumers come to
understand their common interest in creating better coffee and a better
world. By giving those who communicate directly with the consumer an
intimate and technically sound look at how coffee is produced and the
people who produce it, The Passionate Harvest will be a major
contribution to those goals.
Kenneth Davids | Co-producer | The Passionate Harvest.
Davids is the
author of three books on coffee, including the pioneering Coffee: A
Guide to Buying, Brewing & Enjoying, and is a leading media
commentator on coffee.
What a gift to coffee: to have our most important and mysterious
stories about how coffee is grown and harvested told by our industry's
best storytellers.
Don Holly | Corporate Quality Control Manager | Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
What a remarkable achievement! Whether a coffee novice or expert, The
Passionate Harvest reveals specialty coffee's incredible journey from
branch to brewer more accurately‚and more interestingly‚ than any other
video I've seen. Bellissimo's beautifully produced video takes the
viewer from the remote highlands of Ethiopia to the Cerrado of Brazil,
with stops in between, accurately covering the world's coffee growing
regions and processing styles. I highly recommend The Passionate
Harvest to everyone interested in learning more in-depth about the
people, places and practices responsible for the beverage we love.
Bruce Mullins | Vice President of Product Development and Training | Coffee Bean International