{"id":227,"date":"2010-08-26T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:40:22","slug":"ninjas-in-outer-mongolia-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/ninjas-in-outer-mongolia-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninjas in Outer Mongolia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been a little busy lately preparing a submission to the Sheffield International Documentary Festival Meetmarket. This is for makers of documentary films. Those that make it through have the opportunity to pitch their film to a huge number of commissioners from around the world. It’s like Dragon’s Den for doco makers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

For those that don’t know, since before my car accident a few years ago, I’ve been making a documentary about ‘ninja’ gold miners in Mongolia – nomads who lose their herds to climate change and turn to illegal goldmining in order to survive. I finally have enough energy to be able to work on the project again; the storyline is more relevant than ever with a state of emergency declared in Mongolia last year after one of the harshest winters to date, with livestock dying in their millions and Fairtrades impending introduction of a Fairmining Gold Mark .<\/p>\n

It’s not photography, but I thought I’d share with you the quick teaser we put together. Mongolia is an extraordinary country of great beauty, strength and grace and with the longer film, I hope to pay testament to that as well as this little bit of sensationalism!<\/p>\n

It is thanks to the good will and hard work of many that we have got this far, but right now special thanks go to Gansukh Baatarsuren, Robin Grayson, Rachel Grierson, Tom Sharpe, Sasha Djurkovic, Lucia Ashmore.<\/p>\n

If you want to watch the teaser, click on the grab above or go to http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/14604803<\/p>\n

A few BTS stills:
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