I travelled to Sana'a in Yemen last week to shoot 3 short films with Interactive Filmmaking and Mobile Movement for Silatech, a social enterprise focused on job creation and entrepreneurship for youth in the Arab World. My brief was to shoot two projects - one involving vocational training and the other young entrepreneurs, and the visit of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, Chair of the Silatech Board of Advisers.
What an amazing place! I know it's had some bad press, but I felt very welcomed by all of the Yemenis I met and fell in love with the country. I hope very much to have the opportunity to return.
I'm now editing the 3 films, but in the meantime I've cut together a few shots from an evening I spent in the old town of Sana'a. It's all shot handheld on a Canon 7D (most of my filming otherwise was done on an EX1) with no z-finder and in an enormous rush, but it does give a flavour of the place.
