Locavore NXT's restaurant building rising from the jungle in Lodtunduh, Ubud — one big habitat with a rooftop food forest, filmed by We Do Creative for the World's 50 Best Restaurants Sustainable Restaurant Award film
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Locavore NXT - One Big Habitat

Locavore NXT - One Big Habitat

Official Award Film Production

Official Award Film, Documentary Storytelling, Culinary & Hospitality

Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Client: World's 50 Best Restaurants (William Reed)

Objective

Objective

When Locavore NXT won the Sustainable Restaurant Award at Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2025, World's 50 Best commissioned We Do Creative to make the official film. The piece that would introduce the world to Asia's most progressive restaurant across 50 Best's global websites, social channels, and international media, from print to broadcast. The brief: capture what makes Locavore NXT unlike anywhere else on earth, and deliver a full multi-format campaign suite in under three weeks, from first frame to final master.

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Shoot Day

1

Shoot Day

10+

Deliverables

10+

Deliverables

3

Weeks to final delivery

3

Weeks to final delivery

Strategy

Strategy

A Story Rooted in Food, Place, and Human Craft

Locavore NXT isn't a restaurant with a sustainability message. It's a building where sustainability is the architecture. A rooftop food forest, a fermentation laboratory, a mushroom fruiting chamber and underground vault, bee-keeping on site: half a hectare in Lodtunduh where the menu is grown, not delivered. We built the film the way a guest experiences the place: Filmed unscripted with Eelke Plasmeijer and the team behind the project The building as second character, moving from the rooftop jungle down through the lab to the table One production day capturing every format the award campaign needed Commissioned by World's 50 Best Restaurants for the Sustainable Restaurant Award at Asia's 50 Best 2025, the film was built to travel: from 50 Best's global channels to international print and broadcast media.

Campaign Delivery

Campaign Delivery

One shoot. Every format the story needed.

For this project, We Do Creative produced the complete campaign suite for a global restaurant award from a single production day. The main film was delivered in 90-second landscape and portrait editions with English subtitles plus a clean broadcast version, alongside the full director's edit in both orientations, a trending reel, three Instagram Stories built on quick-fire questions with the Locavore NXT team, and high-resolution graded stills for press. Every deliverable was cut for the platform it lives on, not one edit resized ten ways.

Campaign Results

Campaign Results

Published across World's 50 Best Restaurants' global website and social channels

Distributed to international media across print, online and broadcast

10+ deliverables produced from one shoot day

Final delivery in under three weeks from filming

Locavore NXT has since climbed from No. 92 to No. 44 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026, the first Ubud restaurant ever on the list

Client rated the production 10/10 and returned for further projects

Locavore NXT - One Big Habitat

Credits

Jan Trnka

Director

John

Producer

Jan Trnka

Director of Photography

Yudsky

Focus Puller

Jay Bali

Gaffer

Gung Wahutet

Drone

We Do Creative

Color

Guillaume R

Sound

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