My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.