Ford's Electric Vehicles Power a Short Film Starring 2 Men and a Fungus

The cinematic work about an epic battle over a magic mushroom comes from BBDO Canada

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A couple of foragers in the forest—an old timer and a young hiker—stumble on an exotic 3-foot-tall mushroom hidden among the flora. Spotting it at precisely the same moment, the men converge on the toadstool, each intent on plucking it for himself.

Is it magic? Maybe. It’s certainly a ginormous specimen of the matsutake variety. But the older man reverently whispers, “It’s still growing,” and they both stand down.

What comes next is an epic battle of wills, punctuated by back-stabbing, dirty tricks and natural disaster.

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