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ALL THAT CONNECTS US
All That Connects Us, is a short verite documentary about teenage life in the outskirts of Apartadó, Colombia.
Often I have ideas, themes and a decided direction which guides my non-fiction work, but it’s important to me that my subjects have room for expression and the story is allowed to unfold. I enjoy observing, embedding, and experiencing people’s lives while creating room for collaboration and this is why I’m drawn to vérite. Someone once said “ A creator knows that you follow the thing to where it’s going, not to where you think it ought to go “ and I believe that. Sometimes it can be harder to let things happen but I think that’s where the magic is.
I met Mishel the first time I traveled to Colombia, in the summer of 2018, while I was working on another film project. I got the chance to talk to her over dinner one night and we clicked immediately. We added each other on social media and talked online. I spent the previous 6 months working on another project about teenagers in the States and was immensely curious about Mishel and her life in comparison.
I traveled to Colombia again that fall on the tail of another project and was able to film with Mishel and her friends.
They are so open, articulate and opinionated which made for a raw unfiltered look into their lives, and in turn offers beautiful insight into some of the complexities of “existing online”.
Crew:
Director: Codi Barbini
2nd Camera: Palu Abadia
Sound: Raffael Ospino
Producer: Nicole Riggs
Music:
Jessy Lanza @jessy.lanza
Quinn Barbini @treblebeach
Color:
Irving Harvey
︎ Production
︎ Direction
︎ Editing
︎ Story
Often I have ideas, themes and a decided direction which guides my non-fiction work, but it’s important to me that my subjects have room for expression and the story is allowed to unfold. I enjoy observing, embedding, and experiencing people’s lives while creating room for collaboration and this is why I’m drawn to vérite. Someone once said “ A creator knows that you follow the thing to where it’s going, not to where you think it ought to go “ and I believe that. Sometimes it can be harder to let things happen but I think that’s where the magic is.
I met Mishel the first time I traveled to Colombia, in the summer of 2018, while I was working on another film project. I got the chance to talk to her over dinner one night and we clicked immediately. We added each other on social media and talked online. I spent the previous 6 months working on another project about teenagers in the States and was immensely curious about Mishel and her life in comparison.
I traveled to Colombia again that fall on the tail of another project and was able to film with Mishel and her friends.
They are so open, articulate and opinionated which made for a raw unfiltered look into their lives, and in turn offers beautiful insight into some of the complexities of “existing online”.
Crew:
Director: Codi Barbini
2nd Camera: Palu Abadia
Sound: Raffael Ospino
Producer: Nicole Riggs
Music:
Jessy Lanza @jessy.lanza
Quinn Barbini @treblebeach
Color:
Irving Harvey
︎ Production
︎ Direction
︎ Editing
︎ Story