_REMOTE DISTRESS

Documentary proposal

“THE DISTANT VIEW SPARES US THE REAL COST TO OUR OWN HUMANITY”

Canterbury Archbishop comments on war.

_Film statement

This is a proposal for a documentary that will follow a volunteer doctor from the UK into a refugee camp in Iraq and through this personal account, bring audiences closer to the human reality beyond the images of a sophisticated war apparatus.

(This proposal is from 2003, prior to the second Iraq war)

Extract:

It is a subjective diary on the inner and outer worlds of the volunteer, a personal account with a historical and collective drama in the background. It does not intend to be an essay, report or journalism, although it may use news reports as part of the setting.