The difference of culture…

Making a documentary like this is interesting. Being married to someone from China for 8 years I thought I had the culture thing figured out but seems I have a lot to learn. For example, we were confronted today by someone claiming that our documentary was “fake”. While it is true that we have directed alot of what’s going on, the kids smiles are definitely not fake.

The question is this: How do you make a documentary with a mission and still make a documentary. Well, we have decided to include some of the process making in the documentary itself. Call it transparency or what have you but we feel it important to show our Chinese audience that some goofy foreigners have attempted to make this happen and attempted to challenge their thinking. Culture is a wall sometimes but definitely not insurmountable.

EDIT: In reading this back to myself I realize another problem, it’s easy as Americans to forget that we have alot to learn. I think I sounded like I was trying to be a teacher to Chinese people. That’s not it, honestly it’s this: There are so many poor kids in this country that would be better helped by their own people than by foreigners coming in with their agendas and so that’s the challenge of the film.

KICKSTARTER!!

I’m pleased to announce there is now an easy way for you to get involved in the documentary project I am working on.

Find out more here:

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thanks, Roger

The Beautiful Mountains of Kunming

Today is our last official day of searching so we headed into the mountains and the first village we came to told us of another village down the road that was very poor.

After this our day turned into something straight out of a movie (pretty good since we are trying to make a movie;)

Here’s a video of some of the aftermath: