Notes from Aleppo is our first production that puts the experience through the mobile phone central, while making the web based content available on desktop PCs as well. As a result episodes from these projects can easily be shared with international online media, which is an important step up after our app based experiment Via PanAm (2013). It was made possible making use of the online software Slices.
Notes from Aleppo follows photographer Issa Touma’s rediscovery of his home city. Forced to leave in 2012, Issa travelled back and forth to Syria until East Aleppo was retaken by the regime in December 2016. Notes from Aleppo shows the people who are returning and those who never left. In a direct way, Touma reveals the struggles of Aleppo’s citizens in their attempt to restore normality in their day-to-day lives and recover from the destruction of war. He uncovers who is behind the reconstruction of the city: neither the regime nor foreign powers, but the citizens themselves. Their stories have gone largely unnoticed by international media. Yet the war has created an independent new generation of Aleppans, who no longer take traditional structures for granted.
Notes from Aleppo was made by: Issa Touma, photography, video, interviews | Lys Romero, story editor & line producer | Tan Tunali, story editor | Thomas Vroege, visual editor | Marcel C. de Vries, graphic designer | Noushig Wartan, translator | Nouhad Awwad, translator | Susan Osman, translator | Herman te Loo, translator, editor English | Wouter Vroege, interactive concept | Bas Vroege, executive producer.
Notes from Aleppo was made possible with the support of: Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, NL Film Fonds and Slices.
For images and information on Notes from Aleppo, you can send an email to Manon Bovenkerk: mb@paradox.nl or call +31 6 18434917.
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