To Karachi end of March

End of March i will go to Karachi- Pakistan for shooting a documentary on . I will stay there for around 3,5 weeks visiting Karachi and also Lahore. This specific trip is made possible by the Mondriaan foundation in the Netherlands. One of the weeks i will be accompanied with Rob van Kranenburg and Usman Haque who come here to exchange ideas with Mauj and other people from Karachi about DIY cities, bricolabs, dorkbots you name it! In this weeks besides shooting i will do a guest workshop on the Karachi University and go with Mauj on a new media workshop and talk to youngsters about filmmaking. An exiting program and a new opportunity to know the people and the country a little bit better.

Mauj the documentary

On this blog i will update about the progressions and adventures in making the documentary 'Opening Up'. Opening Up will be a documentary about the Mauj Collective in Karachi, Pakistan. Mauj is new media collective focussing on the use of new technology on society, arts & culture. By following 3 members of the collective the documentary want to bring a light and focus on the struggle to create progressive developments trough arts and technology in Pakistan. through the main characters we come a cross the many layers this country embedded. We encounter groups of progressive and social people striving for a better society but also facing the many difficulties and uncertainties this people have to deal with.

Opening Up will be a documentary that lights up the other side of the positive possibilities this country and it's people have. And the potential of positive change, if we all put an effort.