- [Ioncinema.com is proud to feature the rookie and veteran filmmakers showcased and nurtured at the 2008 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This is part of collection of emailer interviews conducted prior to the festival - we would like to thank the filmmakers for their time and the hardworking publicists for making this possible.] Patrick Reed When did you first hear of Dr. James Orbinski's story, and why did you want to make it into a documentary?I first met James in Rwanda in 2004. Peter Raymont and I were there making a film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and General Romeo Dallaire's return for the 10th anniversary commemoration.Like Dallaire, James had been based in Rwanda during the genocide, as Head of Mission for Msf; and like Dallaire, the experience of witnessing genocide while the outside world turned a blind eye understandably haunted him.Unlike Dallaire, though, Rwanda was just one of many humanitarian catastrophes that James had personally experienced: Somalia during the 1992 civil war and famine; Afghanistan; refugee crises in Zaire; Kosovo; among others. I was curious to know why he kept going back, what compelled him, and how he was able to deal with the fall-out without be consumed by either rage or despair.
- 1/20/2008
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- An impression amount of submissions (620 to be exact) in the World Docu Competition category - and looking back at last year's selection is a good sign for the things to come. "Alone in Four Walls" (Germany), directed and written by Alexandra Westmeier, which focuses on Russian teenage boys whose life confined to a rural home for delinquents might be preferable to freedom."The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins" (New Zealand), directed and written by Pietra Brettkelly, in which a woman's obsession to adopt Sudanese twin orphans raises many questions about Western attitudes concerning Africa."A Complete History of My Sexual Failures" (U.K.), directed by Chris Waitt and written by Waitt and Henry Trotter, in which the filmmaker consults the women in his life, past and present, to learn exactly how the opposite sex views him."Derek" (U.K.), directed by Isaac Julien, an artistic illumination of the
- 11/28/2007
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