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

I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

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.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

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.