Covid film, climate, cold-war, layovers & resilient humanity.
As I was stumbling through the Istanbul airport on a 12 hour layover, The Rams were heading to the Superbowl back home in L.A., I was looking for the airport hotel shuttle to hopefully get 4 hours of sleep and I found myself waiting along side a few others. “Any minute now”, one of them said. He was an extremely tall Norwegian man and he was happy, grinning from ear to ear while I struggled to keep my luggage balanced on the three out of four wheels that remained attached. I figured he was on holiday or was enjoying a very lovely business trip. Right away I discovered I was in the presence of something or someone very different, as we began to exchange travel stories.
Marius Reikeras is his name. An international lawyer that specializes in crimes against humanity. When I met him he was en route to Qatar and I was heading to Tel Aviv. Marius shared that he was hoping to get into Qatar and had been traveling a lot for some civil rights causes around the Covid-19 vaccine. We definitely had some things in common as I was heading to country number 21 of 24 on my producing trip for “The Pandemic Film”, and the 4th country out of 9 within 25 days for the second film and sister documentary to the award winner “The Pandemic Project Documentary”. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5OTd3rjuo