Avocados & Coconuts

05/01/2025

We won a Peabody. WOW

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa has officially been awarded a Peabody for Best Documentary — one of the most meaningful honors in storytelling.

This isn’t just a win for our film — it’s a win for Lhakpa Sherpa. For a woman who climbed Everest ten times and still lived in near anonymity. For someone who defied every odd, and yet was too often unseen by the world.
We told this story to help change that. And now, the Peabody Awards — a beacon for the most powerful and necessary stories in media — have helped her voice reach far beyond the mountain.
We are beyond grateful to our incredible team that helped us tell her story, and most of all, to Lhakpa, for trusting us with her story.
This award is a reminder that stories like hers matter — and that sometimes, when you shine a light in the right direction, the whole world finally looks.

And now… if we can just get her the sponsorship she deserves so she can keep climbing. 💪🏼🙏🏼

08/22/2024

It should come as no surprise that we 🥑&🥥 would be coconut pilled.

As a Women Owned business that believes in a brighter future for this country and all who live in it, Avocados and Coconuts strongly endorses Kamila Harris for President.

We encourage everyone to cast their vote for:
Reproductive Freedom
The health and sustainability of our environment
The right to choose who we love and marry
Affordable healthcare,
and an equitable future for all Americans

But if you need another reason…. simply because Donald Trump is the worst possible option for nearly everyone other than himself and his family.

In the words of our Bay Area brothers Steph Curry and Steve Kerr it’s time to say… “Night Night Donald!”

Don’t sit this out VOTE!

08/01/2024

Yesterday was quite a day 

 “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” is yours! We’re overwhelmed with the love the film has gotten so far, and we’re incredibly excited that it is now live on Netflix, in 190 countries, and millions of homes.

This was such a labor of love for so many years for the team. We always dreamed that Lhakpa’s story would be told and shared with as many people as possible, and now, that dream is finally realized.

No one deserves the spotlight more than Lhakpa, and there seems like no better time to remind the world of the power and resilience of a strong woman 💪🏼🙏🏼. We believe you’ll feel the same after watching her story.

Congrats to the whole team. And Enjoy!!!

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We thought you may enjoy a small peak behind the scenes on production. What a team 😍💪🏼💪🏼🙌🏼

07/09/2024

“Did you just say… mumble-gore?”

We had so much fun conceptualizing and producing this year’s trailer for the 44th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival!

We’re always excited by the chance to film in all the different nooks and crannies of our city. Shooting with a diverse group of actors and non-actors in locations throughout San Francisco, we hoped to capture our love for SF and SF’s love for film.

We took this project from concept to delivery in just about 3 weeks - which would have been completely impossible without a lot of generosity from our extended family…

A huge thanks to Yvette Solis for directing and captaining the ship, Ray Connoly for his humor and wit in scripting it, Scott Sorenson our talented DP, our in-house PM, Gabby Occhipinti for producing and wrangling a million details, and the entire incredible team of collaborators who lent their talent and expertise.

We’re excited to share the final piece in a couple of days. See you at the festival!

05/28/2024

April 2024 marked the 10th anniversary of our feature doc, A Film About Coffee. 10 years! To celebrate the milestone, we got the band back together for a Tokyo reunion tour.

We decided we’d take another look at Tokyo coffee, to see how it’s evolved over the past decade. We have a real soft spot for Japan having shot there 9 times already, so we set out to catch up with some old friends and meet some new ones. It did not disappoint—incredible food, incredible people, and of course, incredible coffee! Here are a few behind the scenes highlights of what we have brewing.

03/09/2023

Very proud to be a women owned, run and powered company. Happy International Woman’s day to all the strong inspiring women out there and in here. Looking forward to the day when we don’t need to register as a women owned business’ for minority privileges. 💪🏼🙌🏼

02/06/2023

Glorious shoot in Cape Town last week. A real fun one with packed days across all kinds of locations. We took to calling ourselves Avocados and Coconuts and Mountains and Tattoo Parlors and Beaches and Penguins and Lights and Cameras. Excited to share the final piece soon. Stay tuned…

06/20/2018

We are honored to be shortlisted for a Cannes Lion for Still KD! This was a team effort a dream team that is, from our client, to our subject and certainly the talented crew in between. Brandon Loper Jed Jacobsohn Photography Kevin Durant Nike Basketball Must Be Something Tony Hellberg Dalia Burde Jon Barnhardt Amani King Bijan RT Drew Kass Gaby Scott Colette Levesque Cali Bondad Lauren Gould

04/24/2018

Although we did not win - we are still incredibly honored to have been selected both as a nominee in the branded documentary category and received an honorable mention in the unscripted category.
Well done to the whole incredible team who worked on this project - Brandon Loper Jon Barnhardt and the whole avos team. Jed Jacobsohn. Thank you to Nike Basketball for being an incredible client and of course Kevin Durant for being the champion he is.
Congrats to the winners - Red for the wilds and of course our neighbors at Even/Odd and Square for the people choice snag great work!

https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2018/film-video/branded-entertainment/documentary-branded/

Video content in the form of a documentary that promotes products or services on behalf of a brand in order to convey a marketing message.

03/27/2018

https://www.shootonline.com/video/215-mccann-puts-buster-posey-behind-plate%C2%A0-sf-giants-campaign

Agency 215 McCann created this 2018 campaign for the San Francisco Giants; it’s a year that the baseball team--which has won three World Series champio

01/15/2018

Congratulations Christopher Newman and the whole team who worked on the short we made " A Letter to Congress" which scooped the best short award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival.

Congratulations to the amazing filmmakers who make Wild & Scenic a world class festival! We are delighted to honor the following films:

Best of Festival - Rodents of Unusual Size

Spirit of Activism - Angry Inuk

Best in Theme - Water Warriors

Most Inspiring Adventure Film - Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story

Best Short - A Letter to Congress

Jury Awards - No Man’s Land and Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

Student Filmmaker Award - Rising Tide
Chloe Chin, Kaʻimi Kaleleiki, Alexis Nordblom, Jolene Munch

John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award - Peter Byck

Honorable Mentions - Keepers of the Future, Mothered by Mountains, Imagination: Tom Wallisch

Kids Jury - My Irnik

Kids Jury Honorable Mention - Wild Inheritance

People's Choice - coming soon...
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Sunday Award Winner Screening Line-up
7pm Nevada Theatre (doors at 6:30pm, will call at 6:15pm)
7:30pm The Center for the Arts

A Letter to Congress
My Irnik
Keepers of the Future
Rodents of Unusual Size

Monday Locals Night Line-up
7pm Nevada Theatre (doors at 6:30pm, will call 6:15pm)

Imagination: Tom Wallisch
Mothered by Mountains
Water Warriors
Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story

09/12/2017

Comm Arts piece on our final Rapha Rides film - worth a watch and a read

http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/rapha-short-film

Director Spencer MacDonald traverses Los Angeles for a cycling sportswear and lifestyle brand.