Documentary Film-making
April 2nd, 2007My super good friend Juan Pablo had a pretty bad accident some years ago where he damaged his spinal chord and as a result lost almost all the mobility in his body. Taking these sour lemons he made some really great lemonade: he now runs the Arcangeles Foundation where disabled people from all over Colombia are treated and helped and pampered. The man is also a political dynamo, taking his words to the higher echelons of Colombian bureaucracy in order to advance his cause.
In any case, he recently invited the Great Lakes Storm Rugby team - quad-rugby players from Michigan, USA - to Colombia to talk about the sport (it was the subject of a recent documentary called Murderball) and play a bit. I was invited to join the crew to film the whole event in order to make a documentary about it. The trip (Bogota, Cali, Medellin and Cartagena) was absolutely awesome and surreal: more than 20 hours of video were the result. As soon as the doc is ready (I shot it, but someone else is editing it) ill post a link to it.