Today I will be pitching my documentary topic. It’s called Away.

Everyone has been a foreigner at one point or another. Everyone has felt the paralyzing fear and intimidation of being somewhere new. It could be a new group of friends, a new university, a new job, or in Liz’s case, a new country. 

Back in India, when she learned that her husband had the opportunity to study music in one Hong Kong’s finest music school, she packed her bags, picked up her baby and moved to Hong Kong! She had left her job, her family and her friends in India, to live as a stay-at-home mother in HK. She will talk about her struggle with the transition, and what it was like being pregnant and giving birth in Hong Kong compared to India. She will talk about how her day goes from sunup to sundown, and tell us what kinds of struggles she faces as her husband has to balance his daytime job and his music aspirations. 

I will be replicating the editing style of Allure’s “Work It” segment. I think this way, the audience will feel like they are part of Liz’s life as she, well, lives. I want this film to be a light-hearted film about the life of this mother with some moments that will tug at the viewer’s heartstrings.

I do not want to use a narrator or a host for this film, because I think it will work better if the viewer’s are not acknowledged as “viewers”, but feel like they are being personally told the story by Liz. There will be some archive footage as Liz recalls her life in India.

I would need 2 cameras and one tripod for the interviews. Also, one sound recording device and a shoulder shoulder mount. Approximately, this will come upto $2500 dollars. Since there are no actors, or rented location site, it won’t cross $2500. This is, of course, excluding travel costs. It will cost about $20 dollars for one person to go from Mong Kok to Yuen Long. So, that means it will be $40 dollars in total, as it will include my crew member. 

According to research, expat mothers would love to watch this film as they can feel represented and feel like their troubles are being heard. New mothers moving to Hong Kong or any new country in the world get advice from Liz on moving to a new country. Audiences who watch this film will be able to acknowledge how hard it can be for a wife supporting her husband. If audiences are able to understand the troubles of an expat in Hong Kong, maybe ultimately the government may too. 

 

Thank You!