The new feature examines the COVID-19 crisis through the eyes of co-directors around the world, a feat von Einsiedel likens to 'putting together this sort of 'Avengers' version of a documentary.'
, what started out as a film about compassion and individuals reacting to the pandemic soon became one about the societal flaws it exposed, about inequality, and about the growing anger towards the responses of populist governments.It sort of began a few weeks into lockdown. There were a lot of terrible things going on. There was chaos, a pandemic and tens of thousands of people getting sick. But there were also crackdowns on freedom and opportunism.
It really was this very collaborative process. We started from a point where we wanted to try and include kind of a real sense of the globe, so were looking for stories in the Far East, in southern Asia, in Africa and India, in Europe, and in the Americas. But we ended up gravitating towards countries where COVID was playing out particularly badly.
It’s funny, because historically one of the things I love about documentaries is that you don’t know what’s going to happen. That is normally really exciting. But I caveat that by saying that’s normally when it’s quite a small story with a few protagonists. This thing was such a monster in the sense that it was almost 10 feature documentaries, with no knowledge not just of the individual stories and what would happen in each of those, but what was going on globally. It was very hard.
This began originally as individuals responding to the pandemic. That’s what almost all of the storylines began with. What it became is individuals fighting against the flaws in society that the pandemic has just exposed. And I think most of those storylines came to a moment of, I guess, anger, of climax, of fight back. And it felt like after that happened, that was a moment to sort of wrap it up.
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