Filmmaking Is A Process That Allows Filmmakers To Answer Hard Questions by Alexandria Bombach of ON HER SHOULDERS Documentary
Filmmaking Is A Process That Allows Filmmakers To Answer Hard Questions by ON HER SHOULDERS Alexandria Bombach
Film Courage: From a Youtube viewer (Ms. Green) we had a question “How has what you’ve seen influence your view of life over time?”
ON HER SHOULDERS releases on Friday, October 19 in New York and Wednesday, October 24 in Los Angeles, with a national rollout to follow.
In her latest documentary, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach introduces us to the brave twenty-three-year-old Nadia Murad. Nadia’s life is a dizzying array of exhausting undertakings — from giving testimony before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials. With deep compassion and a formal precision and elegance that matches Nadia’s calm and steely demeanor, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS to become a relentless beacon of hope for her people, even when at times she longs to lay aside this monumental burden and simply have an ordinary life
Alexandria Bombach –Director, Cinematographer, EditorAlexandria Bombach is an award-winning cinematographer, editor, and director from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first feature-length documentary, FRAME BY FRAME, followed the lives of four Afghan photojournalists who were facing the realities of building Afghanistan’s first free press. The film had its world premiere at SXSW 2015, went on to win more than twenty-five film festival awards, and screened for the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani. Alexandria continued her work in Afghanistan in 2016, directing the Pulitzer Center-supported New York TimesOp-Doc, AFGHANISTAN BY CHOICE, an intertwining portrait of five Afghans who had to weigh the costs of leaving or staying as the country’s security deteriorated. In addition to her feature documentary work, Alexandria’s production company RedReel has been producing award-winning, character-driven stories since 2009. Her 2013 filmCOMMON GROUND unearthed the emotion behind a proposed wilderness-area addition for a community in Montana as heritage and tradition are seemingly defended on both sides. Her Emmy award-winning 2012 series MOVE SHAKE captured the internal conflicts of people dedicating their lives to a cause.
Nadia Murad is a human rights activist. She is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, the recipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize, and the UN’s first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. She has also received the Clinton Global Citizen Award, the Peace Prize from the United Nations association of Spain, and was named 2016 Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine. Together with Yazda, a Yazidi rights organization, Nadia is currently working to bring ISIS before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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