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Notes from the field — production diaries and behind-the-scenes reflections from my work as a filmmaker across Tanzania and beyond.
Tanzania · Field Notes
Nelson Godfrey · 11 min read
Six lessons on filming at altitude — the gear failures, the permits, the porters, and the mornings that made every frozen finger worth it.
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- Denis Godfrey
- Production Diary
- 8 min read
What it took to keep cameras rolling across three days of rough terrain — and why the best shots came from the moments we didn’t plan for.
- Angela Mukajanga
- Documentary
- 22 min read
Documenting the AFRISOS & Great Sine of Africa program meant putting the camera down more than picking it up — on trust, patience, and whose story it really is.
- Jigar Ganatra
- Editing
- 14 min read
Fifty hours of footage, one honest story. How the edit found its shape once we stopped trying to cover everything.
- Nelson Godfrey
- Macro
- 5 min read
Working at a scale most cameras aren’t built for — lessons from a project that lived and died by a few millimetres of focus.
- Denis Godfrey
- Wildlife
- 8 min read
Back into one of Africa’s last great wetland wildernesses — on shooting water, patience, and the shots that got away.
- Angela Mukajanga
- Technique
- 9 min read
What changes when you take the camera off your shoulder and put it in the air — a short reflection on drone cinematography across East Africa.
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