I have been around for awhile, getting my exposure to the show biz back in 1969 producing rock shows. I went on to produce many top national and international acts during the eighties and early nineties.
Typhon Yolanda was one of the worst storms ever to hit the Philippine Islands. Thousands of Filipinos died while many more thousands were wiped out and if not for the massive aid programs from around the world would have died as well. At least that’s what they tell us. But, reality is always a bit different from the official line, and that’s where I come in. My contacts are already telling me the aid is not really going where they say it is and the people are, mostly, being left to their own devices to salvage what is left of their washed out lives.
I’ve been to the Philippines four or five times over the last twenty years and have a pretty good understanding how they think and act. They’re not ones to complain, so that makes it even harder to find out what is really going on there. But, when millions of aid dollars go over there and the people still have to mostly fend for themselves, it’s just not right and the world needs to know what’s really going on. My mission is to bring some light to their plight even though they stoically soldier on while the aid dollars disappear somewhere into the mists of time.
I plan to shoot in Samar and Leyte, the places hit hardest by the typhoon, sleeping out in the open or wherever I can grab some makeshift accommodations. All of the money I raise will go into the production, not into a luxurious lifestyle while I document people living on the edge of existence. I will, in many ways, be sharing the same harsh conditions the Filipinos experience while I try to get the real story of what is going on over there. Sometimes, you just have to live it to really get it. That’s how my story will differ from the official version you’ve heard from the mainstream press.
My last project will be released early next year, “End of the Road”, an exotic road trip through the Killing Fields of Cambodia and beyond. If you could see that you would know I’m the right guy for this kind of program, I go where others fear to tread and get the story other’s don’t have a clue about. Let’s get this one done together, just a little money will go a long ways in exposing the story behind the headlines that the authorities would rather you not be aware of so they can go on dumping millions of dollars into some bureaucratic black hole that never have to be accounted for.
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