Taimoor Sobhan is a documentary filmmaker working for human rights organization, #fortifyrights. He is based in bangkok and shares his knowledge about filmmaking, going from film to digital, and making films form life in refugee camps to Muay Thai fights in Bangkok's prison system.
You can see more of Taimoor's work here:
https://www.instagram.com/taimoooooor
https://vimeo.com/taimoorsobhan
https://twitter.com/taimoorsobhan
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1:10 - start in to film making from documentaries, features films, 16mm to digital
3:56 - Log and capture and proper logging techniques
6:09 - Journey into human rights film making
7:45 - Working in Bangladesh
8:30 - Cox’s Bazaar, Kutupalong refugee camp and Rohingya in 2008
10:00 - Seeing Rohingya refugee camps change over 10 years from 2008 to 2017 and onward
11:15 - Seeing cramped refugee camps
13:40 - The enormity of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar Bangladesh
16:00 - Human rights videos
18:00 - Calling this Genocide
18:54 - Whats it like going to Cox’s Bazaar and into the Refugee camps
20:00 - Filming in Crisis 23:00 - The still shoot and motion picture.
23:16 - The language of motion pictures for human rights documentation
24:10 - Rohingya refugees documenting their exodus on their cell phones.
26:13 - Looking at images of crisis and pain over and over as a film editor
27:50 - Getting human rights films on New York Times OpDocs
31:42 - Re-traumatizing subjects in crisis
32:34 - how to protect a person in crisis
32:58 - cut throat industry in times of crisis
33:33 - fast paced news vs. documentaries in covering crisis
33:48 - asking deeper crisis
34:14 - documentary their genocide on their cellphones
35:03 - prejudice we carry to Rohingya refugee camps
35:33 - social media in refugee camps
35:46 - Giving cellphones and instagram to Rohingya refugees to tell their story.
37:33 - How refugee camps work, and the power of social media from the inside
38:42 - Internet shutdown in Refugee camps
41:02 - what makes a good shot, what makes a good photo or video?
41:43 - The motion picture camera as an empathy machine.
42:23 - tracking shots in film
42:36 - the importance of good sound design
43:21 - not rehashing images and perpetuating stereotypes
44:20 - Netflix and the rebirth of documentary film
45:34 - Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka inspiring a generation of film makers.
47:28 - The birth of Cinema and role of filming in society
49:03 - The democratization of Film making
49:50 - The DSLR revolution
50:11 - Photography and videographer are two different art forms 53:16 - Documentary film making is now mass entertainment 53:20 - The best thing about film making 55:25 - The Muay Thai Fight for freedom in Khlong Phrem Prison. 58:23 - One piece of advice
