As the year comes to an end, ushering along with it a new decade, we, at Apo Calypso Productions, find ourselves reflecting on our past endeavors over the course of the last two years. Our tribulations and our successes have brought us a profound distance from where we set off, pursuing our vision into unforeseen landscapes as pilgrims seeking wisdom. We remain committed to the journey upon which we have embarked: a mission to track, learn, and share those teachings that turn ourselves inwards, deepening our perceptions of the relationships humans form with the sources that grace us with our mental, physical, and spiritual nourishment.
Back at our base of operations in Toronto, for the past six months we have been involved in distributing 300 preliminary copies of our first film, IL Ngwesi. We gave a number of people from a diverse demographic the chance to provide their input as to how the film could be made more effective, and decided to bring IL Ngwesi back to the editing stage for minor alterations. With these changes now complete, IL Ngwesi is, alas, prepared for the 2010 Film Festival Circuit, where we hope to broaden our range of spectators on an international scale and amplify the voice of that very special community.
We are always widening our network of grassroots and indigenous communities throughout the world. While this network continues to expand, over a dozen communities have already expressed their interest in working with us to create works of cultural immersion. Along with the prospect of working with these communities in the near future, is the prospect of expanding our ever-growing archive of footage. This archive will prove invaluable as we seek to connect each of these peoples to a global collective, enlarging, for both these people and our viewers, their sense of community.
Through fine-tuning our model, we have defined a very accessible approach to creating works of cultural transmission. Through this continued mission we have been granted the opportunity to implement stage one of the model, Relationship Building-Story Telling, with the Kayan tribe of Borneo, and the Dani tribe of Papua New Guinea.
Beginning on the 24th of this month, we will be taking a 5-week preliminary expedition into one of the most mysterious, bio-diverse, and abundantly indigenous populated regions in the world. We will be developing a relationship with these two particularly isolated tribes that we hope will sprout into a collaborative project in the likes of IL Ngwesi. A journey to Indonesia will also allow us to document the cultural and religious diversity that exists throughout the country, and the unity therein. Its people, landscapes, and wildlife will be filmed to weave these diverse relationships into a trans-cultural web of Indonesia as a whole.
Following our trip to Indonesia, we plan to return to the St’at’imc nation in February to document the reaction of the community to the forthcoming 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, much of which will be taking place, unauthorized, on St’at’imc land.
As the roots that ground our initiatives continue to grow, we seek to branch out by facilitating cultural exchange on a larger scale. We are currently in dialogue about the development of a website, brainstorming ideas that would grant greater access to the projects and collaborations we have formed. We are more than open to suggestions. Once again we thank you for your continued support.
Onward and UpwardBack at our base of operations in Toronto, for the past six months we have been involved in distributing 300 preliminary copies of our first film, IL Ngwesi. We gave a number of people from a diverse demographic the chance to provide their input as to how the film could be made more effective, and decided to bring IL Ngwesi back to the editing stage for minor alterations. With these changes now complete, IL Ngwesi is, alas, prepared for the 2010 Film Festival Circuit, where we hope to broaden our range of spectators on an international scale and amplify the voice of that very special community.
We are always widening our network of grassroots and indigenous communities throughout the world. While this network continues to expand, over a dozen communities have already expressed their interest in working with us to create works of cultural immersion. Along with the prospect of working with these communities in the near future, is the prospect of expanding our ever-growing archive of footage. This archive will prove invaluable as we seek to connect each of these peoples to a global collective, enlarging, for both these people and our viewers, their sense of community.
Through fine-tuning our model, we have defined a very accessible approach to creating works of cultural transmission. Through this continued mission we have been granted the opportunity to implement stage one of the model, Relationship Building-Story Telling, with the Kayan tribe of Borneo, and the Dani tribe of Papua New Guinea.
Beginning on the 24th of this month, we will be taking a 5-week preliminary expedition into one of the most mysterious, bio-diverse, and abundantly indigenous populated regions in the world. We will be developing a relationship with these two particularly isolated tribes that we hope will sprout into a collaborative project in the likes of IL Ngwesi. A journey to Indonesia will also allow us to document the cultural and religious diversity that exists throughout the country, and the unity therein. Its people, landscapes, and wildlife will be filmed to weave these diverse relationships into a trans-cultural web of Indonesia as a whole.
Following our trip to Indonesia, we plan to return to the St’at’imc nation in February to document the reaction of the community to the forthcoming 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, much of which will be taking place, unauthorized, on St’at’imc land.
As the roots that ground our initiatives continue to grow, we seek to branch out by facilitating cultural exchange on a larger scale. We are currently in dialogue about the development of a website, brainstorming ideas that would grant greater access to the projects and collaborations we have formed. We are more than open to suggestions. Once again we thank you for your continued support.
Apo Calypso Productions
