Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Felix Masi - Arriving from Kenya to NZ Thurs, 8 March 2007

How exciting - Felix is making his maiden journey to New Zealand, arriving tomorrow!!! The purpose of the trip is to translate our very lengthy footage filmed in Kenya last december into English. After arriving back here last Dec 06, we hunted high and low for translators of the 4 village dialects that the grnadmothers speak (we had anticipated recording in Kiswahili, but we discovered upon meeting them that they don't speak their national language in the villages). We couldnt find anyone in NZ with this skill, so our decision to bring Felix to NZ was made!!!

On many levels this is very exciting:
1. we get to finally transcribe our 53 hours of footage to English
2. Felix makes his first journey to NZ
3. The connection between Kenya and NZ is further solidified
4. Our project continues to build momentum.

I'd love to hear from you, and thank you all for your continued support. The Sponsors Club is growing and we're able to make the film happen because of you!

All love Q x