2 Comments// Posted in blog by admin on 11.23.09.
It has been an eventful few months. What began merely as a document of the Basua people has become a tale involving corruption, incompetence and seemingly gross negligence. It tells of how an impoverished, marginalised and potentially endangered people were being exploited in order to siphon development funding, and how the funders themselves failed to [...]
2 Comments// Posted in blog by admin on 09.25.09.
We’re now back in Europe having completed the second phase of filming with the Basua in Uganda. It’s now time to begin piecing their story together, pulling aspects from the thirty or so hours of footage we shot, including numerous interviews, and developing a narrative.
It’s a daunting task. Their situation is complex and undoubtedly fragile. [...]
No Comments// Posted in blog by admin on 08.18.09.
We’re in North America at the moment, finalising plans for the second round of filming in Uganda. We’ve secured travel costs and are now fundraising for equipment rental, accommodation and post-production.
We’ll be flying into Kampala on the 6th of September and will spend the first week with the Basua in Western Uganda, near Bundibugyo in the Semliki [...]
No Comments// Posted in blog by admin on 07.25.09.
1. pygmy - A member of any of various peoples, especially of equatorial Africa and parts of southeast Asia, having an average height less than 5 feet.
2. An individual of unusually small size.
3. An individual considered to be of little or no importance.
Pygmy is a portrait of a group of people who are considered the marginalised of the [...]
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