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THE RETURN

A Documentary for ChildFund International

We followed Annapoorna, a ChildFund-supported teacher in India, through a day that showed us how one act of help ripples forward.

Made with Matter Unlimited for ChildFund International, the film was planned as a single day's shoot in India, and became three. The more we learned about Annapoorna, the more we wanted to understand. Without ChildFund's support of her education as a child, she would have worked in the fields and been married young. Instead she became a school teacher, focusing on children with learning disabilities, and helped found a Child Club where children discuss education, health, safety, and child marriage. The help she received was amplified many times over by how she gives back. The film is a documentary built to put viewers inside each location, with cameras placed centrally within each scene. For classroom scenes we shot at children's eye-height, placing the viewer among the children. One moving shot, filmed from a motorbike riding alongside Annapoorna and her husband, captures the momentum of a life transformed.

The Return: title card reading Inside Impact The Return, showing a girl standing at a fork in dirt paths through a green rural field in Andhra Pradesh, with palm trees, small houses and an overcast sky in the background.
The Return: an Indian farmer standing in a rice paddy field, wearing a light blue head wrap and a red tilaka mark on his forehead, holding a mattock resting on his shoulder, palm trees visible behind him.
The Return: a man in a plaid sarong standing between two white oxen with painted horns and nose ropes, in a shallow rocky riverbed.
The Return: a man sitting cross legged at the center of a circle of children and teenagers, speaking to them in a community room decorated with educational charts on knowledge, hard work, attitude and discipline.
The Return: three girls in green and white school uniforms walking hand in hand along a dirt path through green fields, with adults and a resting dog visible along the path.
  • THE RETURN: A crew member holds a rigged 360° camera up to a rain-streaked car window, filming from inside the vehicle.
  • THE RETURN: A woman kneels to draw a colourful rangoli pattern on the ground in front of a doorway.
  • THE RETURN: Five men stand in a green field, each holding a mattock over their shoulder.
  • THE RETURN: A clapperboard reading Child Fund - Tirupati, Dir: Anrick Bregman, resting on rocky ground beside a phone stopwatch.
  • THE RETURN: Two crew members rig a 360° camera with trailing cables beside a car.
  • THE RETURN: Two boys ride together on a green bicycle along a dirt path.
  • THE RETURN: A boy smiles from the driver's seat of a red tractor.
  • THE RETURN: A man carries a large bundle of palm fronds on his shoulder along a muddy path.
  • THE RETURN: Four crew members pose together in a green field, one holding a clapperboard.
  • THE RETURN: Crew film a helmeted man on a motorbike, holding an umbrella over the camera rig on an overcast day.

  • Behind the scenes photos for The Return.