Coca-Cola – The Note
Christmas, Performance, Short film, Reveal, Emotive, a man makes a child a gift after finding her note in a bottle, but when he delivers it it’s revealed to be for a woman who wrote it years ago when she was a child, pages turning in a storybook, a man sitting on the end of a pier fishing, dog watching him intently, fisherman getting on bicycle, fisherman pushing bike next to pier, going to the general store where people are sitting at tables outside, women knitting and gossiping, talking about the man who always says no, shopkeeper hands the man a box, walking bicycle on footpath in forest to lovely old cottage, unpacking a box of glass bottles, a photograph of a woman, pieces of glass, looking for a missing piece, opening a bottle and finding a note inside, dog lying in the doorway, fire crackling, a man re-reading the note, going into workshop and building something, doing woodwork, crossing days off a calendar, building something, making something, sewing, painting, finding the perfect piece of glass, village Christmas party at the store, pulling a trolley, getting in a small boat with his dog, riding in small boat across the sea to another village, arriving at an address, knocking on the door, little girl opening front door of house, calling mom, mixed race woman, very surprised, at old man standing outside, with a small sailboat, being invited in for Christmas, heartwarming story of following up a message in a bottle

Agency: VMLY&R
Production House: Prettybird
Director: Bryce Dallas Howard
Editor: Antonio Gomez-Pan