I Will Find You

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Website

http://www.IWillFindYouTheMovie.com

Topics

Human Development: Children, Labor, Land, Poverty, Social Exclusion
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Gender, Indigenous Rights, Race Politics, Religion, Social Exclusion
Peace and Conflict: Arms & Military, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Peace, Security, Terrorism, United Nations
Politics: Activism, Civil Society, Codes of Conduct, Democracy, Ethics & Value Systems, Geopolitics, Governance, Justice and Crime, Law

Project Geography

International: Asia

Identity Niches

Asian, Children, Indigenous, Women

Budget

Raised to date: $120,000.00
Estimate to complete: $125,637.00
Total Estimated Budget: $245,637.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of

Status

Post Production

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

Theatrical

Key Personnel

Daniela Ponce
Director/Producer

DANIELA PONCE grew up in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and experienced the early transition years to democracy as a teenager. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from George Mason University and an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University. In 2003, she first traveled to Nepal to document the earliest rise of the pro-democracy student movement. After completing her thesis, Ponce used her research to campaign against enforced disappearances coordinating rescue strategies for political prisoners and, with Peace Brigades International (PBI), provided protective accompaniment or “human shield” to individuals threatened by political violence. Ponce has been nominated to the Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty for her extensive human rights workin Nepal. In addition, she has worked at the Organization of American States (OAS) and at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington D.C. where she has led and coordinated various peace and transitional justice initiatives in the U.S. and Latin America. Ponce has advocated for the protection of human rights in front of the U.S. Congress, as an expert witness in political asylum cases, through academic pieces, media interviews, news articles, war photography exhibits, and currently through I Will Find You, Ponce's first film.

Funders

Name	Amount	Date
Regenerate Films - in Programmatic Support	$36,000.00	01/01/2009
School of the Pacific Island Foundations	$84,000.00	04/01/2008

Location

1408 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd
Thousand Oaks, 91362

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Short Synopsis

A feature-length documentary film following three Nepalese as they embark on an epic search for their loved ones and others who were detained and "disappeared" during the decade-long civil war in Nepal.

Description/Treatment

I Will Find You is the story of four characters with a shared destiny; three individuals and a country, all torn apart by war. To many, these individuals –the trio – are agitators to be silenced for re-opening past wounds and for disrupting a fragile peace. To the rest, they are poor victims on an endless road to justice. Yet as Krishna, Sunamati and Jitman embark on a dangerous journey to reclaim their loved ones and others who were “disappeared” during Nepal’s ten-year civil war, they prove everyone wrong. I Will Find You is as much about Nepal and its struggle to reconcile with a haunted past as it is about the trio’s profound transformation from subjugated victims to voices of change and catalysts of hope.

I Will Find You documents the crime of enforced disappearance – and makes the case against the Nepalese army for crimes against humanity against the Tharu people - through an intimate examination of the personal lives and experiences of three characters during Nepal’s transition from peace to war.