The Film Panel Notetaker

Delta Boys – World Premiere
Q&A with director Andrew Berends
Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center
May 29, 2012
New York, NY
Notes by Brian Geldin

In 2008 while making his documentary Delta Boys, filmmaker Andrew Berends (The Blood of My Brother, When Adnan Comes Home) was arrested and falsely accused of espionage at the bustling Nembe waterside in Port Harcourt, [...]

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By Liz Nord | Twitter @lizfilm

Telling Global Stories at DOC NYC
November 5, 2011
New York, NY
PANELISTS:
Andrew Berends (Director: The Blood of My Brother. Upcoming film: Delta Boys)
Ross Kauffman (Director: Born Into Brothels. Upcoming film: The E-Team)
Pamela Yates (Director: Granito, When the Mountains Tremble)
Elizabeth Cantrell & Mara Tshibaka (NYU Master’s students, co-directors of a yet-unnamed film [...]

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Received the below email from Andrew Berends via The D-Word regarding the latest situation in Nigeria:
As you may know, I’m back in the U.S. after ten days being detained by the State Security Services in Nigeria. I’d been in Nigeria for six months filming DELTA BOYS (http://deltaboys.com/) about the oil conflict in the Niger Delta. [...]

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On Tuesday of this week, I attended a welcome home party for filmmaker and journalist Andrew Berends, who had been arrested with his translator, Samuel George, and Joe Bussio on Sunday August 31st in Port Harcout Nigeria while filming at the local waterfront. Andrew has since returned home, but Samuel George’s legal status remains undetermined. [...]

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