L E A R N I N G
⌛ Filming all these days has been a true experience. Having the opportunity to learn economics at a micro level has allowed me to deeply analyze the importance of informal economics and how it works from different perspective: locals, a priest, a municipality representative, and an education director. |
Honestly, explaining my learning through the process of creation would take thousands of pages; you've got no idea. This whole journey of actually receiving information not only from professionals but from people who live these reality day to day, has supported my limited internet knowledge about such a valuable topic to understand. Because sharing all my learning would take days to reflect in and weeks to read, there's a specific idea that has brought all my learning together: my initial thoughts, and the final result.
As I began doing the interviews, I started solving the puzzle and getting the answers to all my thoughts. I learned in a couple of hours what I could have taken to learn a month if I didn't listen to the opinions of professionals. But this whole idea of learning about informal economics and JUST informal economics was wrong.
SO... at the beginning it was all about informal economics, and how it worked in Manchay, a small community. But as I started finding a pattern in the interviews and replaying them over and over again, I noticed something really important. I learned, that the most important aspect of any economy--whether it's informal or formal, small or robust--is the people who build it and maintain it.
I T ' S A L L A B O U T T H E P E O P L E
It's difficult to think it in this perspective if I just mention it, but as I kept on doing interviews this statement was constantly verified , adding a lot of value to my learning.
Adding up, something interesting that I learned through the process of filming, was how no matter what working position you had in Manchay, the lack of government support was a common opinion. In other words, everyone mentioned that the economy of Manchay wasn't defined as happiness, instead there was always a lot of room for improvement. I was shocked by how after 23 years, the community hasn't yet been formalized, and all these related to an absent government that gives their back to all the community members. Even without help from a powerful source, with entrepreneurship and will to succeed in life, locals from Manchay community have buckled up for a rough journey which began small, and is still progressing but now, in a larger scale. MY ADVENTURE AS A PROFESSIONAL FILM MAKER HAS TAKEN ME THROUGH AN UNFORGETTABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE | ★ ★ ★ |