Alang and David

Alang Geh, an emergency room nurse from Baltimore, MD, returns to his home country to provide medical care for people in rural Cameroon in search of a young boy who he had met on a previous trip, but lost contact with due to the crisis in Cameroon.

15 Minute Run Time

It is the journey of a lifetime and we want you to be part of it. About two years ago I heard Alang Geh, the founder of Caring Hands, tell his story and describe his own experiences while visiting the Cameroon. He told me about the people of Toube and how they do not have access to basic medical care and how extremely difficult it is for them to receive the treatment and medicine they are in desperate need of. I was heartbroken by these stories, and it was then that I decided to take action. I decided to see for myself how these people live and the struggles that they endure on a regular basis. In January 2020, we traveled to Cameroon, Africa, where after landing in Douala, we traveled out to Toube and Bangoua where Caring Hands set up mobile clinics for the duration of our stay. Our trip provided us with the material to put together several films. We are currently working through post-production, now remotely. We are super excited with how things are going and cant wait to be able to share more.

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MEET THE

DIRECTOR

Mark Perry is a Senior Film and Moving Image major on the Cinematography & Editing track, originally from Lancaster, PA. He is president of CRU at Stevenson and had the awesome opportunity to help launch United Church. After first hearing about the community in Toube last year, he has been determined to tell their story. He is super excited for the opportunities this project is creating, and the group of people that this project will bring together.

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“This documentary will employ a self-reflexive, cinema-verite style approach to tell the story of the Caring Hands Africa organization’s humanitarian work with a small community in Cameroon, Africa. Not simply an observational ethnographic document, the film will explore concepts of immigration and social responsibility through the eyes of the film’s director”.

~Chris Ernst~

Say what?

“This documentary will employ a self-reflexive, cinema-verite style approach to tell the story of the Caring Hands Africa organization’s humanitarian work with a small community in Cameroon, Africa. Not simply an observational ethnographic document, the film will explore concepts of immigration and social responsibility through the eyes of the film’s director”.

~Chris Ernst~

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15 Minutes of Fame

Our first big screening of the film was with the senior showcase in May 2020. The next step for the film was to submit to a variety of film festivals. We got some great news from the 15 minutes of Fame Festival.  15 Minutes of Fame is a Film Festival based out of Florida, and is a collection of films produced anywhere in the United States or Canada that are under 15 minutes in length. Submitted films were viewed by a panel of five judges and the highest scores became official selections. We got our Official Selection notification at the end of October. It is with great anticipation that we look forward to the digital screening of the festival that runs for the month of December. We are one of two documentaries being screened.

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Mark Perry

Our first big screening of the film was with the senior showcase in May 2020. The next step for the film was to submit to a variety of film festivals. We got some great news from the 15 minutes of Fame Festival.  15 Minutes of Fame is a Film Festival based out of Florida, and is a collection of films produced anywhere in the United States or Canada that are under 15 minutes in length. Submitted films were viewed by a panel of five judges and the highest scores became official selections. We got our Official Selection notification at the end of October. It is with great anticipation that we look forward to the digital screening of the festival that runs for the month of December. We are one of two documentaries being screened.

Robert Morison

Before being brought on to this project, I had already edited numerous short documentaries and short films both at Stevenson and my various internships. I knew how to organize and prepare footage, but I was only doing it at a semi-moderate level. Most of the time, the footage was on the same hard drive as the project and I was only dealing with-on average-maybe two hours of footage in any given project. I knew that this would be a totally different animal so I had to make sure I was ready.

Will Johnston

I like to play with hypotheticals in my down time. It could be what would happen in a class, or writing a project, or a later conversation I’m going to have with a person. They’re easy to come up with and I can think of some crazy hypotheticals when I want to. Going to Africa was no exception. I was going to a place I was unfamiliar with having no experience in Africa with Alang having made the mission trip once before. Since he grew up in Cameroon, I felt better, but that didn’t mean that butterflies went away.

Will Johnston

I woke up at 3:00 am the day we left for Toube. My mind was coming up with all types of ideas on what to expect to see in Toube. Would this be when culture shock hits me? Will I feel like I’m starving myself to death? Will I be able to handle some of the sights I see? I didn’t go back to sleep. Everyone else woke up around 5:00 am. The ride to the boat was one of the smoothest rides we had so far. There were actually roads (most of the trip) and they weren’t in terrible condition. Plus, not many cars were out at 6:00 am (understandable). Police/military were patrolling the roads and pulled us over a couple times wondering our reason for traveling. Geh showed his military ID and explained what we were doing as other men shined flashlights into our van. We were cleared to go but it was a little nerve wracking watching men with guns tell us whether or not we could go and wondering what would happen if they told us to exit the vehicle.

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