Another way companies and organisations can get their message out there is through mini-docs. Short in-depth documentaries that explore what they're doing and why. The example above was produced for Christian Blind Mission Australia who wanted a DVD to send to their donors to show how the project is working, and where the donor money is spent. They also used this video to gather new supporters by screening it at various community events around Australia as well as online. Below is a little story from producer Nahum Ayliffe about how we shot the video in Papua New Guinea.
Filmed over 10 days on location in the rugged eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, Through the Clouds documents the story of three women suffering from cataracts, and their journey back to sight.
Working with the local community workers, Kieran D’Arcy and Nahum Ayliffe travelled on rough mountain tracks to the remote communities from where the journeys of each of the women begins.
After a day long journey by bus, a trip each woman makes in relative darkness, they reach the nearest regional hospital in the city of Goroka, what is probably their first visit to any hospital.
Three women, vision impaired, each a great distance from their homes and families, facing a daunting medical procedure in a place they have never seen, and by a medical team they have never met. They wait in trepidation, hoping for triumph.
This film was written, filmed and produced by Kieran D’Arcy and Nahum Ayliffe and commissioned by CBM Australia (formerly Christian Blind Mission International - Australia) to commemorate the 10,000th cataract patient in Papua New Guinea.