history:
Research
into the film first began in August 2003 - Ray Tostevin
and Phil Knox were in Rwanda at the time of the first presidential
elections since the 1994 genocide on a filming trip with Tearfund's
Transform teams. The numerous stories they came across that ran the
range of hope to despair started them thinking about ways of expressing
this in a longer film.
October
2003, and
the team had been put in contact with Lesley Bilinda, and started
to hear something of her powerful story. A positive meeting with
Lesley in Edinburgh, led on to some interviews on-camera at her sister's
house in the centre of the city. Whilst apprehensive at the thought
of returning, Lesley had a strong desire to be able to draw a line
under her previous harrowing experiences and 'move on'.
Further
research led to a short investigative trip for the crew in January
2004.
This was to look into a couple of issues, visit and get a feel for
some of the places we were planning to film with Lesley and to work
out the various practicalities and legalities of filming there. This
led to the production of a short promo which
went out to interested broadcast commisioners.
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