Check out this video I found on the United Nations Foundation news feed. It is about Ethiopia, but could very well be Nepal. It made me think about our film. It made me think that what we are making is sort of an ‘insiders’ guide’ to what a family has on the line when they [...]
Rama works in the little guest house my friend, Kristin, and I stayed for a few nights in Bandipur, Nepal. She cooks and cleans. She doesn’t have all that much English and I have hardly any Nepali. We overly “Namaste-d” to compensate— knowing if we spoke the same language we would have a lot to [...]
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 [...]
