A Day in Africa with Brook Silva Braga
Nomadic Matt :. Why did you make this documentary? It is quite different from your last
Brook: ".. A Map for Saturday ' Yes, it is really different, and I was definitely doing something else for a view, I have a chance to travel through Africa about a year ago and I decided to make this film, while perhaps because 'a map for Saturday' focuses on the journey., as much on the alien life this time I wanted to locals to concentrate.
In 'a map for Saturday, "I said almost everything I have to say about traveling so I was looking for something else to move mainly because a film making powers They live for a very long time with the same topic, so that at the end of the process, you are ready for something different. Also, if you make the same kind of movie twice people might associate just starting with this issue and I want to cover a lot of different things.
What do you hope that people from the movie have a better understanding that people have?
My hope is like life for ordinary people in Africa. I think the unfortunate that so much of what we see comes from small pockets of the continent where terrible things have happened while most places are completely uncovered by the Western media. Many of the images and stories that come from Africa, try created by groups or organizations to create interest in a particular case. I had no interest or agenda so I was only able to tell the stories, as I saw it.
There were some forces logistical lead me from country to country, but I was able a lot of places to visit on the continent and traveling at the end of 12 countries that gave me many options for shooting , I was always trying to looking for interesting people, places or situations and to always take a balance between the different regions of the continent and between rural and urban environments.
How did you decide who films? Was there an interview process or if you just ask strangers?
It was different every time, but often I have only one place to walk and encounter interesting and articulate someone who I thought would make a good topic. There were also times when I tried to get some specific perspective and then went looking for someone who embodies. That's how I met Bridgete after a month in Malawi spend trying a woman who followed the day she gave birth.
What are some of the challenges of filming in Africa were?
In many ways, Africa was a very easy place to film, because people were so open with their lives and not self-conscious in front of the camera. The challenges were logistical, because if you lose P2 adapter you can be sure your Duel systems, you will not find a replacement anywhere near. I had to get lucky with all appliances through my journey intact, but it was a fairly constant concern.
Most of the discussion about Africa is about poverty and war. If you make this film as was in these perceptions fit what you wanted to discuss?
I agree that these issues covered again and again, and I think that there are two main reasons for it. First stories from these remote parts of the world only make the newspaper when they are exceptional and tragic usually, so we only heard of a place like Zimbabwe if there was something terrible in the news.
But the other reason is less excusable in my opinion. Too many people books, so documentaries or otherwise tell decide what will be their story before each write one foot on the continent stories about Africa. My Mission "One Day in Africa" was in the production, as something of a blank canvas to come and let the people I drive the direction of the film hit instead some outline I had concocted in Manhattan.
A Day in Africa is on the Newport show Beach film Festival on April 29. You can visit his website to learn more about the film, One Day in Africa. I also recommend for Saturday a card check out.
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