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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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