Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.