TRAILER: Where the Clouds Come Home

After several long nights' editing (with co-producers Emily & Fritz chipping in from New Zealand and Austria - thanks be to Skype) I'm excited to reveal the trailer for our documentary project, "Where the Clouds Come Home".

How do you hold your ground when a government-backed corporation wants to tear it out from under you?
Members of a small tribe in the ‘Land Where the Clouds Come Home’ are offered a deal: to lease their land for uranium mining…or face the consequences. Whatever they decide, the fallout could be disastrous.

An international co-production between Small Seed Films (UK), Blue Moki Media (NZ) and Blue&Green Communication (Austria), "Where the Clouds Come Home" will be a 1-hour programme on the controversial plans to mine for uranium in Meghalaya, India.

1st Stills from "Where the Clouds Come Home"

Here are a few taster stills from the uranium mining documentary, "Where the Clouds Come Home":

Spillity Lyngdoh Langrin, who gave permission for uranium testing on her land 20 years ago. She lost her two daughters to mysterious diseases, which she blames on the pollution from the experimental mines.

Domiasiat, the village at the centre of the mining debate. The Indian government and UCIL want to mine here, but Spillity, the sole landowner, refuses to grant them access. Many other villages from the surrounding area have given their permission, believing mining will bring development. Spillity's land amounts to almost half of the area designated for mining.

Taking me to see the graves of their loved ones who died during the time of the experimental mining, the villagers told me, "we still feel their loss so deeply." These men buried siblings, children and grandchildren.

"Where the Clouds Come Home" shoot - Meghalaya, India

Back in November I travelled to Meghalaya, India, to shoot the first set of footage for our documentary project "Where the Clouds Come Home" - the story of open-cast uranium mining proposed in one of the poorest regions of the state. I'm pleased to be developing the film with Emily McDowell of Blue Moki Media, NZ.

Meeting Norman Syiem, one of the Khasi villagers opposing the controversial uranium mining proposed by the Indian government and Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)

Resting after shooting in Domiasiat, the village at the center of the mining debate.