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December 19, 2010

As a documentary filmmaker, I sometimes get to go to exotic places and have experiences that are quite difficult to capture and describe. Currently, I am on one of those journeys; I am traveling in Nepal to film two documentaries about poverty-stricken children and the hope they bring to many. As it turns out, almost everyone I am traveling with is Jewish. Three of us are also gay- and everyone, including the young children we are working with, are enthusiastically in support of us.

A special moment happened during our first week here when Helen Nightengale, the founder of the

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