Nicole Sorochan:
A cup of coffee with a good friend changed my life. As we began to taste the left over grinds in our coffee, we discovered a story about political strife and insurgency, that needed to be told. A sudden change in Thai Politics in Dec 2004 lead us to the idea of creating an investigative film. Before we knew it- we were on a train down to the South of Thailand ready to explore the conflict ourselves.
The experience was far beyond the newspaper clippings, and textbooks we were accustomed to reading. We were right there, head first, into a land different from the rest of Thailand, where people needed a chance to speak, and where innocent citizens were being killed everyday.
Chandler Vandergrift:
The more we learned about the crisis in southern Thailand the more we began to feel a responsibility to tell the world what was happening. There is some hope for the region, but very little if people don’t understand what is driving the conflict.
It is with sincere hope that this film will, in any way, help in finding a solution to the violence that is looking increasingly intractable.
