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LADY AIR: MAKING A DOCUMENTARY IN NEPAL. Introduction: read me first!

LADY AIR: MAKING A DOCUMENTARY IN NEPAL
By Lisa Pellegrino

The following article is the first in an eight part series, detailing the process and experience of making an independent documentary about women and the media in Rural Nepal. We will not only be looking at how the documentary went from being a mere idea to a living project but we will also look at the people, culture and confrontations we came across along the way! Hopefully, you’ll not only have a better idea about the complex and fascinating culture of Nepal, about living in poverty, community media and women’s issues but you will also get an idea of how you too can turn a ‘passing thought’ into your own next working project!


We Are All Artists will regularly release the next editions of LADY AIR: MAKING A DOCUMENTARY IN NEPAL. The eight articles are as follows:


1. Nepal, Women and Media
- An introduction to the country of Nepal, the condition of women and the Nepalese media

2. The Documentary and The Maker
- Background behind the documentary and the filmmaker

3. Before Take-Off
- Funding, Planning and Injections!

4. Namaste Nepal!
- Arriving in Kathmandu- filming begins

5. Getting Rural: Tansen
- Setting up ‘home’ in Tansen (where the hard work begins)

6. Living it local
- Everyday life and work

7. It’s a wrap: News, blues and Revelations
- Things we found along the way

8. Back home: What lies ahead…
- Now the real difficult work begins