The final project in the documentary film class I took last summer was a 5 min documentary about anything interesting in Amman. My group and I first decided that we want to do it about this lady that passes by our university everyday on her donkey to collect empty bottles and cans. First time we approached her, she asked for 20 JDs and said her name is Fatima. After a couple of times I guess she started trusting us, told us her real name and invited us to her home. Her mother and sister welcomed us warmly to their tent an extra sweet cup of tea. We found out that 30 years old Aisha earns an average of 1 JD a day as she exchanges 1 kilo of empty bottle for 0.25 piaster's from a factory in Baqaa. What's even more unbelievable that that’s the only source of income they got beside the 60 JDs the mother gets from the government which barely covers her medical bills as she suffers from a heart condition.
Anyways, we agreed on everything and we were looking forward to start the shooting. On the scheduled shooting day we go there at 7 am, all excited, equipment ready then we meet the brother. "The brother" sounds very intimidating but in fact this "brother" is a 12 year old kid that started hurling rocks at us and threatening to call the police because according to him, we want to film his sisters and post everything online which is obviously disgraceful and unacceptable to him, he even threatened to kill his sister. Long story short, we left.
We did this...
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