Jennifer Peedom,whose documentary is at the Toronto film festival, on how she went approximately telling the ethnic Nepali peoples story Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom, or whose film screened at Toronto film festival,went to Everest to shoot one documentary but returned to her Sydney editing suite with something wildly different.
The Australian director had visited the Himalayas for close to a decade and was tired of seeing Sherpas end up on the cutting room floor. She planned to shoot a film from the Sherpa point of view set against a backdrop of political awakening among the ethnic Nepali people. But the Sherpas had become tired of their image as smiling pack mules for the booming Everest expedition commerce. When an April 2013 stand-off between local guides and mountain-climbing tourists went viral, Peedom knew it was time to act.
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Source: theguardian.com