I really think people need to know a bit more about miners and mining than they do currently, therefore I’m setting off to do this doc in Romania with a couple of crewsmen. We’ve got miner strikes, a violent past, uranium mines and all sorts to explore. The plan is to turn this into a feature documentary. The video is just a taste of what miners look like through the eyes of the media. The documentary will try to see past that.

We’ll try our best to accurately represent the miners, exploring where they live, where they work, why they do it and why it is important that they do it. I’m very much interested in what the miners have to say for themselves and not what is heard in the media since communist times. We need to understand where mines and the people working in them fit in and what the future is for exploiting the goodies that lie beneath. Do you know anything you think we should? Drop us a line below. Or not. You know, whatever.

We’re doing this out of our own money to start with, but would need help with transport, which is expensive as always and maybe we can get a couple of nights of rest in a decent place. Or do a couch surf, who knows? The plan is to camp right on top of the places we’re researching if we can, so that we’d literally be “on top of it”. After the research bit ends, we’ll take this short documentary and apply for funding to shoot it to feature length. We have a storyline already, but in order for it to work, we need to understand the miner as a person. From that, anything can happen and the storyline may bend.

At the moment, the team is made up of 3 people:

OVIDIU ZIMCEA is an award-winning son of a gun that did a couple of sketch comedies and music videos. Sometimes for pay, sometimes for passion and sometimes, I dunno. But they usually turn out to be heartfelt pieces and people can understand them. He’s going to be directing and to some extent producing this documentary. He’s got an OK vimeo account too: http://vimeo.com/ovidiuzimcea

ALEX CEAUSU is a scholar in all things post-communist – and pre-communist to some extent – film, music and football. He’s an amazingly thorough conversationalist and can spot a deer a mile away. He’s not much of a meat eater though. A young soul with an old mind, he’s going to be our anchor, like The Complete Oxford English Dictionary. He just recently started writing for Ora de Timis, a local newspaper: http://oradetimis.ro/author/alex-ceausu

EDGAR DUBROVSKIY is yet another award-winning film-maker, you’ve guessed it. It’s just like those trailers in the cinema – no nominees here though, only winners. He has an extensive array of on-set experiences that he draws from. And the thing is that he knows how to wield a camera like no other man on this entire crew, so we said, “OK”. See here what this man can pull off: http://edgarmedia.co.uk

So, where were we?
Yes.

Please help us make this documentary so we can show it on TVR2 and BBC8 and inform the people and learn things and show things and so on. We’ll give you gifts and make you part of the crew if you do! Many anticipated Special Thanks to all of you, I hope you have a good summer! If you do in fact want to aid us in some way, drop a line or drop a few pounds here: http://crowdfunder.co.uk/investment/minerul-the-miner-169 It would make a world of difference, believe it or not!

I’ll end this with a little bit of something for you to get in the mood for it: