Just so that you know that I don't just sit around doing nothing all day, I thought I'd write a bit about a documentary film I made. Nils, at the time, was working as Manager of the Kenya office for Operation Smile - a charity that helps children with facial disfigurements. Once a year, they organise an international mission. Surgeons, doctors and nurses are flown in from around the World to perform operations on around 150 people.
Nils asked me to make a short film to be shown to potential donors explaining what OS do. So I went to Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi every day to see what was going on, film the interesting bits and with the help of Katy, interview doctors and patients.
Every day hundreds of families would turn up hoping that their kids would qualify for an operation. The waiting room was a big tent outside the hospital - I came across some pretty cute kids:
I met some pretty cool people and saw some amazing stuff, including the actual operations in the operating room.
I think the editing took longer than the actual process of filming, but finally I had an 8 minute documentary put together, including music I wrote to go with it!