Film Fund

Student Film, "Quenching the Thirst” was produced in 2004 as a six minute promotional film. It received the “Chairman’s Choice Award” at the Bucks Fever Film Festival sponsored by the Bucks County Chamber of Commerce on June 19 and 20, 2005. One of the goals of the film project is to fund a full-length documentary film about the Maasai. Hours of footage were filmed in May and June, 2005 while our Maasai friends visited the US, including the NYC trip to the United Nations 4th Session on Indigenous Peoples Affairs on May 18th. Volunteer crew as well as Shooters Post and Transfer, Inc. in Philadelphia have very generously donated time and equipment to the documentary project

From November 26 to December 7, 2005 nine people (four-person film crew) traveled to Kenya to live with the Maasai for ten days and film the drilling of the first well.In May 2006 the seven-minute film trailer for “QUENCH” was completed. The film is currently in post production at Freshfly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a goal for completion and distribution in 2010. We extend our special thanks to Shooters Post and Transfer for their continuing support of our film project

Kenya Film Crew

John-Michael Trojan - Producer/Director

John Gooch - Audio

Jason Contino - Camera

Phil Bradshaw - Camera

Jennifer Ellsworth - Executive Producer

Phyllis Eckelmeyer - Producer

Skylar Bird - Student Producer