KNOW ME - Streaming on Cinemata

Dedicated to the forests and people of Sarawak, KNOW ME, is streaming on CINEMATA, a video platform for social issue films about the Asia-Pacific.

Given the horrendous fires burning through the forests of Borneo, particularly Kalimantan, I have decided to release my film on Cinemata.

Any film on Cinemata can be streamed for free, however, I would like to encourage you to support the efforts of the Dayak Youth Firefighters. Any donation, no matter how modest, will go towards their extraordinary battle they face daily at the epicentre of the fires burning through their indigenous homelands.

My contacts in the region can vouch for these two organisations and their donations platforms:

Borneo Emergency - Ranu Welum Foundation
Borneo's Under Fires and Haze Emergency! Support Dayak Youth Volunteer Firefighters

About KNOW ME

Drawn on footage from two eras KNOW ME is an intimate portrait of Sarawak's fragile biomass and the relationship its unique indigenous cultures have to it.

Linguist and WWII veteran, Ian Urquhart, was sent to Sarawak in 1947 where he served as a British civil service officer. In 1955 Ian began filming his visits to indigenous communities in the ‘ulu’ - the near inaccessible forests of the Baram, Tutoh and Tinjar rivers and the Kelabit highlands.

In 1993, I made my first of many visits to Sarawak filming in some of the same regions Ian had been.

I produced what might best be described as a poetic interweave of Ian’s restored footage with my own video, narration and sound design. KNOW ME is an appeal from Sarawak's forests and its peoples who, from my experience I believe yearn to be known before no one is left to tell their story.

For more information about the film, go to KNOW ME on Secession Films.