Back from Darfur
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
In the first week of September, David Martinez and I left Darfur at a walking pace, moving for one week on a horse and cart through valleys between stony green and brown hills with grasses whose sound in the wind reminded me of Minnesota corn fields. One week after we started, we were at the Chadian border, bribing the authorities who threatened to steal our passports. A week after that, I was back in California, adjusting to the universe of difference between Sudan and the U.S. that always seems impossible to understand. A couple weeks after that, we start sitting in front of our computers, watching the recordings of those two months that we spent between Chad and Darfur, wondering how we are going to make what we witnessed living with the rebels into a movie. Now we’re in the middle of it, crafting it all into a story for everyone to digest. We hope to make a movie that will provide political and economic context to what is happening in Darfur, while showing a slice of rebel and civilian life that is far from abject. We recently produced a rough, nine-minute short for Wolphin DVD. Look out for it early 2008.
I plan on posting segments of my travel logging from Darfur here soon. Come back to check it out.
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