The story
The drama. Imagine being 40 years old. Imagine that in the past you were driven into exile and ended up without any hope for a decent future in a refugee camp. Living under bamboo roofs and simple soil. Next to the river where the dead are being cremated. Imagine loosing friends and family who have been resettled from your daily existence. Imagine that one day you might very well resettle to a far away country with a culture that is completely…
Headwind Documentary project suspended until further notice.
After a lot of work, thousands of euro’s invested, seven months shooting in Nepal and the Netherlands, months of post production and a lot of effort in scripting the Headwind documentary I have decided today to end the work on the Headwind project as of today. There are not enough funds available, booksales to support our work is too slow and most if not all of the effort of making this documentary film has come down on me as director,…
NEW INFORMATION CONCERNING THE HEADWIND DOCUMENTARY PROJECT ABOUT THE BHUTANESE EXILE.
Due to continuous funding problems and lack of substantial and workeable support from the community we work for, the White Stork Films production team is sorry to announce that we have decided to ABANDON the current concept of the Headwind documentary. In 2013 the now private project will produce a series of short films (20 minutes) about sub-topics connected with the Headwind project. We do not work with a release scheme anymore as the work has become secondary to the…
Headwind post production progress.
As of oktober 1st, the post production of the film Headwind, the forgotten exiles from Bhutan will restart. In the past months we’ve been working on a couple of relevant sidetracks. The photobook and photoexhibition UNFORGOTTEN and the novel Headwind, Laxmi’s Story have emerged. In the meanwhile we’ve been working on the concept of the film, done some rescripting and made an editing plan. The result is that the film will be composed of four portraits of Bhutanese exiles: an elderly man breaking…
