04/12/2023
A secret Chinese connection!
We first came to Timbaktu in 2011, to film a story on the incredible work they had done in reviving the land. Our film, titled ‘Timbaktu’, garnered multiple wins in the festival circuit, including a National Award. More importantly, it would go on to become an important conversation starter in sustainability conferences across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and inducted into the teaching curriculum of multiple Universities.
But what it did, more significantly, was show the power of film to our friends in Timbaktu. And every couple of years since then, the Timbaktu Collective has invited us to film micro-stories - raising the resources to have us produce incredible stories of the work they’ve done with first generation women entrepreneurs, with children, with organic food, with traditional handlooms...and so much more. As we found our way back to them again this year, they dug up the original film that started it all. The film has now been dubbed in Telugu. And we were told, also in Mandarin! No one has any idea of who did it...or how...but it warms our hearts to see that well over a decade later, this story is still continuing to gently find its way into people’s hearts, across languages and borders 💚
