I stood in shock behind a heartbroken mother on an empty road in the hinterlands of Nepal, surrounded by pristine greenery while a chill ran down my spine. But it wasn't the freezing wind that sent the shivers, it was the tragedy of a mother losing her lovely, little girl to bad development and exacerbated natural disaster.  That in short, is the best representative story of the unfolding crisis of climate change worldwide today. The immense human cost of climate inaction is not visibly perceived and that is putting all our futures at grave risk. And that's exactly the problem we set out to solve through our documentary - Demystifying Climate Crisis through Human Stories.

In 2019, the world took a beating when it came to climate-related natural disasters that costed us thousands of human casualties & billions of dollars in damages. As the fight against climate change intensifies, the challenge of accurately communicating the urgency of the crisis and the relevance of the consequences to everyone on the planet also heightens. There is a vast chasm between the ground reality and the public perception on the looming threat of climate change. As storytellers ourselves who are quite distressed about this defining crisis of our time, two of us are hoping to address this gap using our skills as a filmmaker and a journalist.



Thinking of all that has passed between the time this documentary idea was conceived (which was only July 2019) and what we've accomplished today, I'm filled with immense gratitude for the opportunity to tell the important story of the biggest crisis we're facing today. And I have to thank you for the part you played in bringing this dream to reality.

In August 2019, Deej Phillips, a filmmaker from England, and I decide to collaborate and produce a documentary on Climate Change. I'd be the journalist and researcher taking care of the story and script while Deej would take care of converting the story to a visual format, filming & editing that is. We choose to begin the project in Nepal.