{"id":744,"date":"2013-10-15T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2016-03-16T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:28:43","slug":"directing-in-kenya-distributing-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/directing-in-kenya-distributing-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Directing in Kenya, Distributing in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"steve-equator\"<\/a><\/strong>Nairobi\u2019s Westgate mall terror had not yet seized headlines when I left Washington, D.C. to direct and shoot a short documentary there. While I\u2019ve been all over central Africa, it was my first time in Kenya. I stayed at the Nairobi Fairmont<\/a>, which had all the old-world charm of a century-old safari hotel, as well as a dash of unsettling colonial vibe.<\/p>\n

The DC-based\u00a0World Bank Group<\/a> has sent me to a lot of countries in the past few years to document what it\u2019s doing on the ground. You can take issue with how successful the institution\u2019s been in some countries or some sectors, but I like what I\u2019ve seen. Lately, I’ve been serving as director, shooter, editor — and I’ll usually work with a DC-based producer and a unit producer in the field.<\/p>\n