The Making of This World
Articles by the producers and directors of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ international documentary series This World, shedding light on the making of the programme.
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It also illustrates an important and serious point about why this outbreak spiraled out of control
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The locations where we interviewed them were only agreed at the last minute. We could only talk via interpreters.
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'A few kilometers from the frontline, fighting was visible between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and those of IS.'
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'Dialling a French office in August is pretty much like calling on Christmas day.'
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'The War on Drugs is a dirty business, is what I think he meant.'
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'Each had their own journey, and their own sense of how to measure progress, and none has lost hope that change will come'
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'Strict security was insisted upon; we had to wait in an anonymous suburban car park, we couldn’t have any security guards, our identities were checked...'
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'The terrorists’ casual bloodthirstiness as they revelled in the slaughter still haunts me but then I think of the courage and determination of those three extraordinary mothers'
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Our presence appeared to have a calming effect on the inmates.
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Elaine and I had to make a very difficult trip to Lily’s home to give her some news.
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We always knew that our focus for this film was the people who had worked inside the Rana Plaza, giving them a voice and being true to their experiences.
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'I could be on any high street in the UK but I’m not, we’re in a small village in North East Ghana.'
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"When I got the news about working on a film about the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, I thought there must be a catch. "
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'Coffee production is a surprisingly sensitive issue - it involves land grabs, human rights abuses and the mass movement of millions.'
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'What are the origins of the British cuppa? Where does our tea come from? Who are the people who grow it and what’s life like for them?'
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'No gas and air, and no epidurals... "Filipino women know there's no point in screaming and moaning" explained the supervising nurse.'
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"They are a generation of geeks who have chosen to tune out and immerse themselves in their own fantasy worlds." From Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News.
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"We were in one of the most remote places on earth. Reaching a safe place to stay for the night seemed a distant possibility."
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"I met rape victims, rebels, bloated politicians and haunted citizens of a country that has ceased to function." From Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News.
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"'You’d better come in quick', he said. Stepping through the door, we swapped the frigid Denver winter air for the humid, marijuana-infused atmosphere of a cannabis factory."
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"Chubby kids in India are traditionally viewed as a sign of a family's wealth... It was only after doctors explained that he was close to eating himself to death that things changed."
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"Thrilled and bewildered, we crawled down, one by one, into the underworld, where millionaire mafiosi choose to hide like rats."
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"Our destination was uncertain, visibility low, weather foul and we didn’t have much time."
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'Evidence of the unsettled security situation was immediate. We travelled in armoured vehicles, with an AK47 besides the gear stick.'
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"I told the parents and the children that this would only work if the children could say as they felt, openly and honestly." From the TV Blog.