In detail
After a global casting call we found Jero in New York, Covid meant for the first time in his life, he would be unable to go home to be with his family in Mexico. His story was the story of so many of us during Covid and so this film hit a special note. To recreate togetherness we interviewed Jero and secretly his family too. We found out their Christmas traditions, from the food his grandmother cooks, the scents of the family home, right down to the little wooden stool they sit on to open their Christmas gifts. Then two amazing production teams in the US and Mexico recreated these Christmas traditions in two restaurants in at the same time – one in NYC and one in DF.
A huge screen put Jero at the end of the family’s table, even though he was thousands of miles apart. We brought items from his family home to a restaurant in New York and created an olfactory ambiance that recalled the familiar scents of home. Chefs in both locations cooked the exact same meal, to Grandma’s precise recipe, so they could share Christmas dinner together.
We were an entirely global and mostly remote team. I led from London, the director was based in Barcelona and we shot on the ground in NYC and Mexico DF.
