I just read an interview with the Documentary Doctor, Fernanda Rossi about trailers and it made me feel really good about ours. The Girlworld trailer as it is now is 10 minutes of Shanta, our oldest (and I would say, most intense) subject. In these 10 minutes we see her walking home from school, doing [...]
It has been two weeks and it is feeling that finally we are really, actually home. The first week was like being underwater– words came out of my mouth, but I didn’t really expect them to reach people’s ears, so I didn’t, couldn’t really spend too much energy on being coherent. The afternoons were spent [...]
So, as reported in the article copied below, Kathmandu is in a condition of general road strikes. There is a great deal of hubbub about petroleum prices–basically the government can’t afford to subsidize the stuff, and it costs the same here as it does in the states. Only, most people here earn no more than [...]
This from today’s Kathmandu Post: A Plague of Strikes Upon Us? Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, June 22 - At least four strikes - Valley and Nepal bandas — in a month and many more in the making. As if the rest of the country felt left out in the Valley-only transport strike on Saturday called by [...]
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 [...]
