WHAT IS MIGRATION? Support a film in the making

WHAT IS MIGRATION?

I have migrated across the border between Colombia and Panama. For months I have lived on the edge – to make a documentary about the largest migration flow on the planet. I followed a mother, a father and 3 small children from Venezuela through The Darién Gap jungle. They are not my family, but they have become my friends.

Together we have climbed, crawled, starved, been afraid, seen dead people. We have hugged, cried and laughed.

This is what happens when you, like me, document their fight for a new future. A future that I, and probably you who are reading this, live in. When you see a mother carrying her children across a river - the pressure of the current, the pressure of life and all the privileges they were not given; then something happens inside you.

It has been life-changing for me, filming the documentary about The Darién Gap - to see what so many people live in every day. Something you can easily forget, as a Western-born citizen. I think it can be healthy to be aware of your privileges. Be grateful for the food you eat, the roof and walls that keep you warm, a government that takes care of you - and in general, be able to see a future for your children.

But it has not been without its price for me to record, document, throw myself into this project. My economical means to communicate and present the raw reality are soon used up. In other words, I need to find people who, like me, can find and see meaning in doing something selfless. Who can see meaning in making enormous differences for those who have the least.

I am seeking funding. From companies or individuals who can see a value in fighting some of this fight, together with me. Not for my sake. In fact, not just for theirs (ed. family) - but for the sake of history

Working with The Darien Gab is eye-opening - right into the soul. I am a more grateful person today, and I can see, in the midst of the polarization and global geopolitical situation that we as a world community find ourselves in, that we need unity. Not more division.

With the new Trump administration, mass deportations of migrants are taking place in the United States - without trials. Millions of migrants are accumulating in Mexico, where they are victims of assaults and kidnappings from drug gangs who make large sums of money from migrants.

Life as a migrant is not easy, but we often only refer to migrants in numbers, so we forget that there are people behind them - man, woman, baby. Flesh and blood. Perhaps it could help more people to watch a documentary about these migrants, so that people can see what I have experienced: that they are just ordinary people in search of new opportunities - for peace in life.

I have chosen to swallow some of my pride and that is why I am making this page, to actually ask for help in fundraising so that I can keep my project alive. So, I can keep showing the raw reality alive and finish my film.

All the best,

Rasmus Krath