When Top Chef Canada Season 7 winner Chef Paul Moran invited us out to Sixty Forty, his farm-to-table dining experience in Central Saanich on Vancouver Island, we knew this one was going to be special. Sixty Forty isn't a typical restaurant, and this was never going to be a typical restaurant video. It's a working farm, a seasonal kitchen and a story about where food actually comes from, and our job was to put all of that on camera.
What we made lives somewhere between a food film and a portrait of a chef. Here's how it came together, and why this kind of storytelling works so well for restaurants, farms and food brands across BC.
The place
A farm, a chef, a story.
Nestled on Vancouver Island, Sixty Forty brings together locally sourced ingredients, foraged delicacies and wild BC seafood, all built into seasonal menus that change with the land's natural rhythm.
Every dish is crafted with care, celebrating the freshest ingredients at their peak and giving guests a fully immersive farm-to-table journey. For a filmmaker, that's a gift. The colour, the texture, the steam lifting off a plate, the hands of a chef who has done this ten thousand times, it's all there in front of you. Our approach was simple: slow down, and let the food and the farm speak for themselves.
At Sixty Forty, every plate tells a story, and every ingredient shines.
Behind the lens
Filming flavour.
Great food video is about restraint. Intimate close-ups, natural light and just enough motion to make a dish feel alive, without turning a plate into a hard-sell commercial.
We filmed tight, intimate close-ups of each dish, the farm in the early light, and the kitchen in full motion, then built the whole edit around Chef Moran and his team. Beyond capturing the artistry on camera, we got to taste the results firsthand, and the food is every bit as extraordinary as the vision behind it. Filming a chef who cares this much is the easy part. The real work is doing that passion justice on screen.
Working with Paul was an honour, and an absolute joy, both as filmmakers and as food lovers.
Why it works
Why farm-to-table brands need film.
For restaurants, farms and food brands on Vancouver Island, video is the closest thing to bringing a guest to the table before they ever arrive.
A menu tells people what you serve. A film shows them why it matters, the provenance, the craft, the people behind the plate. That's what turns a curious scroll into a reservation. Farm-to-table video, restaurant brand films and food videography all do the same quiet job: they build appetite and trust at the same time. And when the story is genuinely this good, like it is at Sixty Forty, you don't have to sell it. You just have to capture it.
This project was special on every level, a perfect blend of creativity, craftsmanship and pure enjoyment. It's a small window into the world of Sixty Forty: a place where flavour, creativity and nature meet in near-perfect balance.
This one also holds a special place closer to home. Chef Moran and Sixty Forty were the chef and a proud sponsor of the most recent Peninsula Gives fundraiser, and this film was screened for the room that night. Volare Media is the media sponsor for Peninsula Gives, donating our time and craft to the cause each year, so getting to tell Sixty Forty's story and see it up on the big screen meant a great deal. You can read more about that partnership on our Peninsula Gives community page.
Filmed and produced by Volare Media on Vancouver Island, with thanks to Chef Paul Moran and the whole Sixty Forty team.
