Antananarivo, Madagascar
2 reviews$250 - $800 / Day
Filmmaker - Photographer - Drone operator From and based in Madagascar Bachelor in Filmmaking from WWI, Mumbai, India Won 5 awards, one Telly Award with Al Jazeera and one at Better World Fund/Cannes Film Festival A Malagasy who connects Madagascar locals and international shoots, blending in wherever I go.
October • 2022
Geoffrey was wonderful to work with. He went above and beyond to get us everything we agreed on, including shooting extra days. He's also trilingual so he was able to do the interview translations. He was also diligent in walking us through all that he filmed once he returned.
Vanilla is one of the world's most expensive spices because it's so labor-intensive to grow. Madagascar is responsible for 80% of the world's supply. And there, each vanilla orchid blooms for just one day a year. Farmers have to hand-pollinate each flower because the plant isn't native to the island. In recent years, the tough work has paid off, as vanilla prices soared to $600 per kilo in 2018. But why, if vanilla outpriced silver, are Madagascar farmers still in poverty? Farmers face fluctuating prices, unfair cuts of profits, and vanilla thieves stealing their crops. We head to Madagascar to see how farmers are trying to protect their "green gold."
Maggie Grout has just printed her first school in Madagascar - only the second 3D-printed school in the world. She started the NGO, Thinking Huts, as a teenager, with the aim of 3D-printing schools in countries where some children lack the opportunity to get an education. Printing schools is fast, once the printer is set up, and saves on building materials. Maggie says she is motivated to help underprivileged children partly because she was born in poverty in China, before being adopted by American parents. Camera by Geoffrey Gaspard
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In this video, the Time + Tide Foundation documents its second translocation of Crowned Lemurs from threatened mainland forests to the protected island of Time + Tide Miavana.
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