Chipotle - Back to the Start

Willie Nelson, Coldplay, Chipotle and director Johnny Kelly have made a creative alliance with the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation to create BACK TO THE START, a short animated film highlighting the issue of sustainable farming.

Chipotle founder Steve Ells met with Johnny Kelly in London to talk about his passionate efforts to source food on a more sustainable and ethical basis.

Music legend Willie Nelson, well known for his support of family farmers, was a perfect collaborator for the music.

The pace and timeline of the film is captured beautifully in camera using traditional stop frame model animation techniques to track the life of a farmer. Filmed in one sweeping take the film was painstakingly animated over 4-weeks on one large all-encompassing model background.

The track has been released on iTunes with 60 cents from every sale going to the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation.