In ideal world, a fixer/local producer will come in advance to locations, find the best character that fits the story, make an approach them before the crew comes. This one, of course was different. When we were coming the first time, we didn’t know what to expect in the locations, we just knew how to get there. The first shoot was a proper adventure, though we played it by ear. We learned from talking to many people, went the three locations, and met three characters that we considered for Will to film for the whole year in this documentary.

Each characters has something to offers, and then team has to make their decisions, which one we gonna stay with for the length of a year. Every fascinating characters we met contribute to 1st episode and make it richer. 

In this trip we learned that most of Korowai are in transition, they moved to the village formed by the government. All of the youth start to have their own cell phones, even though it’s just to listen to music. The story itself is fascinating, and yet we are unaware of what will happen next. Logistically very hard, we have to work for hours to get there, we bring our own cook and bring lots of food with us to survive in the jungle. 

We made it through though...we came in as individuals, but left the jungle as a family.