Cawon Cafe Bali

We'd just arrived a few days in Bali, for what would be a 90-day engagement in Indonesia for our friends over at KAPAL Perempuan, whom we were making for 7 short films. As we waited to be let in to the following day's location, we broke for lunch at Cawon Café where a chance encounter with Agus, the owner finishing up with roasting coffee, led to an eager conversation about his journey in coffee trade. We were sad to hear that his wonderful coffee business wasn't much on audio-visual visibility platforms. As coffee lovers and who’ve been making documentaries on coffee stories in Ethiopia, we offered to make him a slow roast film (because we had so much to film next few months) and he was truly blessed with our gesture. We only had a day or two of rest before we had to hit Lombok and once we got the blessings of our hosts, we headed over to Agus and started filming. Day 1 evening was at the coffee shop, day 2 morning we left Denpasar for Kintamani, a 2hr drive. We spent a couple hours with Agus at his brother’s farm, Arca Coffee. Sadly we had to head back as we had a relocation to do the same day and didn’t make it to his plantation but we still got beautiful visuals. We got paid in really good coffee downed with sweet fried plantain and a visit to see Kopi Luwak creators, the eccentric civet.