It’s day six of the workshop. The challenge, creating a film with 20 people in one week who have never made a documentary in their lives, is working itself out.  To watch in one week what a group of dedicated students can achieve has been incredible.  Days one and two, we cast for the principle and secondary characters. We imagined scenes, got the permissions and set up a schedule.  Days 3,4 and 5 we shot 2 or 3 sessions a day.  In between we critiqued the footage and kept hammering home basic principles of documentary filmmaking.  

We began to imagine how the film might open (Sun rise Voodoo ceremony) and close (woman sweeping the streets).  The excitement is building in the town.  Tomorrow is the Carnival.  We’re going to have fantastic material for this film.