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Synopsis Budget Project's Financial Needs Current Stage of Production Estimated Completion Date Background Timeline Treatment Structure Target Audience Production Personnel

Synopsis

The true story of Engineers Without Borders and their efforts to save a remote village in the remote Andes of Bolivia.

Using indigenous music and all new documentary footage, Welcome To Yanayo will take its audience to the remote mountains of Bolivia, where villages face epidemics of disease and starvation. Through interviews, the Bolivian people, and Engineers Without Borders volunteers, will tell their own stories as they work together to alleviate suffering in the region.

"Welcome To Yanayo", CBF Entertainment, Educational, Documentary, Feature length

Budget:

$ 16,000.00

Project's Financial Needs

Funds will be used for completion of this project.

Current stage of production

Production

Estimated Completion Date

01/11/2010

Background

Engineers Without Borders had chapters all over the world. The University of Washington chapter contacted director Cecil B. Feeder and requested that he do a documentary about their project in Yanayo, Bolivia.

Timeline

Pre-production:

September 2007
•    Cecil B. Feeders was approached by members of the EWB.
•    He began research on the organization and Bolivia
•    Contacted potential crew

January 2008
•    Research on funding and distribution

March 2008
•    Fundraising begins

April 2008
•    Meeting with going green expert
•    Travel arrangements secured
•    Final pre-production assessment

Production:

July 2008
•    Production in Bolivia

September 2008
•    Production in Bolivia

Post-production:
November 2009
•    Editing
•    Mastering
•    DVD artwork
•    DVD authoring

December 2009
•    Reproduction and Distribution

January 2010
•    Broadcasted nationally

Treatment

Welcome To Yanayo the documentary about the Engineers Without Borders' (EWB) work in Yanayo, Bolivia, directed by Cecil B. Feeder, will be shot entirely in HD format. Feeder will travel with a small group of volunteers and will document their efforts to help relieve the strains of disease and starvation in the remote Andes of Bolivia.

The entire trip will be documented, from the technical and physical trials of carrying and charging camera gear in the rugged Andes, to the the trials of communication and language translation. Members of EWB will share their perspective of the Yanayo project's accomplishments in intimate interviews in remote settings. While documenting the daily work and details of the planning we will also focus on the personal details of the group. On days or rest, or when work stopped, the crew will travel to visit local musicians. We will interview and record their songs and stories to bring to light the history and culture of the region. This music will be included as a soundtrack to the final piece.

The completed full length documentary will focus on the EWB and it's efforts abroad and will spotlight the Yanayo, Bolivia project in a personal, informative and musical light. It will be created for a large target audience in a public broadcast format. The piece will be fast paced and informative, while at the same time musical and personal, ultimately giving the viewer a visual and audio taste of the lives of the people of Bolivia and the positive impact that EWB has on their lives. The hope is to introduce the EWB in a non-biased manner that generates excitement about becoming involved with the program.