Fall 2019 I returned to Malawi with a new partner organization, Marion Medical Mission. The non profit group builds wells for the rural poor in Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi where even clean safe water is unavailable to many.

Although I typically work with a team on film projects, as the director, collaborating with a cinematographer, due to the extremely tight timeline (I was asked to leave for 5 weeks with 8 days notice) we couldn’t realistically scout, plan and put together a team.

I’m in western Maine looking out over a smooth slate blue lake reflecting the burnt autumn foliage of the mountains under stormy New England skies, even as in my mind I gaze back over the past few months. Exactly a month ago I sat high on a steep hill looking out over the vast cerulean blue of Lake Malawi, imagining Tanzania and Mozambique somewhere out of sight, trying to understand my weeks in country as I swatted the persistent flow of micro ants off my dress.