Sports Around the World - Mission Rwanda

I remember myself at 8 years old, with eyeglasses, my shoes perpetually untied and a red notebook clutched in my hand. Even when it was nice outside I always preferred to sit inside, in front of that newfangled device called VCR. Watching movies. Immobilized by emotion. Studying characters, frames, colors, movements and music. Daydreaming my days away. Imagining all the different ways that Cinema can tell a story. One, ten, one hundred…a thousand stories altogether. It was in those days, so long ago, that I decided I wanted to be a director, to make people dream just as I had dreamed as I watched those flickering images. I’m happy with what I’ve been able to accomplish so far; me, that little boy who used to steal his daddy’s VHS tapes so he could watch and re-watch them on the sly, again and again for days in a row. Some films have irrevocably changed my life and I will never be done thanking all the artists who helped me see the esthetic, ideological, historical and – above all humane – value a film can have. I don’t want to be cheap on my dreams. That’s why I hold on to my passion for story telling with the same innocence I had when I was a child, the child with the red pencil-book. For this work, me and my crew had a goal to score: promote all the activities of Sports Around The World NGO. We'd like people to watch this, to encourage potential sponsorships or to invite everybody to do the same in those devastated territories. Nobody will make money with this movie, and we just don't care. As we like to say, it was made "for a better world"! I worked almost for free with a very, very little budget. I deeply wanted to tell this story, and it was not a matter of money. And, for real, we're very happy and we look forward to get back to Rwanda as soon as possible, to shoot another movie: those guys really deserve a big attention for everything they've been doing in Africa.