Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We make documentary films for television. One of the films we are currently completing is a personal journey of a journalist who gets behind the conflict in Aceh and lives with the rebels during this terrible, suppressed conflict in Indonesia. One problem we've had in talking about this project around the world is that most people have never heard of Aceh. Of course now, Aceh is on the map in the most unfortunate of ways. When looking at the people in the footage - shot a year ago in areas that are closed to the outside world - I wonder how these people have been affected and how many are still there. Its very easy to just see numbers from afar of cultures we don't know, but this film gets under the skin of the people, so for us, it gives the enormity of the situation for the locals in the areas a human dimension. Matt