Private Project

Pedro: Another Day of Life

Pedro, a Venezuelan refugee, spends a day walking back and forth across Cucuta (Colombia) looking for a barrel lid in the hope this favour will reward him with a piece of metal that he can recycle.

  • Jonathan Tait
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 7, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    3,680 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Colombia
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jonathan Tait

Jonathan Tait is an Assistant Producer on live sports television, a filmmaker for NGOs and accomplished photographer with experience working around the world. He started his career as production assistant in adventure sports programming, training as an editor and working on a wide range of lifestyle films following major athletes throughout their seasons. He went on to produce adventure programmes before picking up the camera and going to Zambia to work with the NGO Eventure. Since then he has produced, shot, edited and photographed projects for many NGOs including Y Care International, Africa Research Excellence Fund and Abrahamic Reunion. He has worked as a Digital Producer at Great Ormond Street Hospital and has been working on a human rights focused documentary for the past five years.

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Director Statement

My goal is to create documentaries that tell the stories of people you don't hear about, refugees, the homeless, those fighting occupation, the ones portrayed in the media only as terrorists, people recognised in their work by international institutions but are still fighting for their homes or their land. Every time I apply for a documentary fund it states we want "character driven films" and yet so many films I see lack interesting characters. I pride myself on finding these characters, forming a great relationship, and through my observational style letting their personality tell the story. I want my audience to remember the person not just their circumstance, this way we can change the latter.