Koruna is from the sticks. The thing is, the sticks isn’t so far away, like maybe as the crow flies– 6 miles from our hotel. Landscape-tually and culturally, driving there was like leaving the big city and entering Little House on the Prairie-ville.
ROADS: Since we’ve been here, I have thought a lot about the effect [...]
Stayed up till 2am last night preparing for our BIG DAY of interviews. We have had this Saturday all booked up and scheduled perfectly for over a week now. We were supposed to conduct our interviews with Pragya, Manita (her mom), Shanta and her brother, Kumar, today. Saturdays are key because it is the only [...]
Best. Documentary. Day. Ever.
Exhausted and Exhilerated, in equal measures. Big, big shooting day (up at 5, out at 6, return at 7:45pm, two cameras rolling off and on much of the day), ‘out in the village’, with Koruna.
More tomorrow, I hope. For now, a few pictures, and off to reel in some swoony sleep.
…and doorways [...]
Went to the village today to find our third girl. If it sounds like ‘how on earth is it that they’re 9 days from leaving and they’ve yet to cast this thing?’… well, you’re right. It was freaking us out as well.
But doing this kind of work in unfamiliar settings, across language and cultural divides, [...]
The first time we went to Pragya’s with Nutan to introduce ourselves and to tell them about our project, Pragya pointed to a cozy little bed with carefully placed stuffed animals on top of it and told me, “This is our bed.”
The three of them, mom, Pragya and her eight year old little sister, Praynena, all sleep together. I remember how I used to LOVE [...]
