About the Project
My Story
Raised in East Timor and Cambodia, I have always been drawn to water, fascinated by how people move through it and blend with it, as a way of life. I've also been disturbed by our treatment of water. I remember as a small boy every day on the ferry to school trash bags being thrown into the Mekong River. I felt that the Mekong was alive too, and required deeper respect. I started a community project to paint trash cans and put them on the ferries. At Berkeley High School, I'm halfway through a two-year IB film program. We are in an ever deepening climate crisis. I want to listen to and give a voice to the icebergs and the glaciers that born them.
The Project
In June 2024, I have the-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join Mike Magidson, an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker, to north western Greenland for three weeks. Mike is making a documentary about a recent recent best-selling book on the life of Icebergs. I will make a film about the making of his documentary. Mike's documentary will center on the author, who will be narrating the experience of icebergs as they break off the glaciers and slowly melt, moving down the fjords. I will take my own original footage during the three weeks, and produce an 18 minute film to be screened in Berkeley, September 2024.