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Last night was a big night for Stefan Randström and Simon Paine.
As I was telling you in my last blog, Stefan and Simon where waiting for the rescue team at the Caribbean Supermarket to pull out survivors. They waited and waited, Stefan knew the rescue team would succeed. There was rumours about a trapped 6 year old boy and a 13 year old girl still being alive.
By about 2.30 am the rescuers pulled out a 17 year old girl and then a 35 year old man. The moment felt like a miracle had just happened, people clapped and cheered, but there was a cry of joy that outdid them all. A women had recognized the girl, she was her daughter.
She was conscious and looked confused and scared. Her body was so dusty that Stefan didn’t know if she was wearing clothes or not. They placed her on a stretcher on the back of a pickup truck. The media had promised the rescue crew that they would not jump on top of the survivors to take close ups but to stay at a respectful distance.
They couldn’t help themselves and took the camera’s right above her as she lay. Stefan managed to resist the temptation, as he puts it “After all it is your job to get a close up”. Nevertheless he managed to get a short close up from the back of the truck.
This is going to be a night to remember, and add great intensity to the film. I can’t share this footage on the blog, you will have to watch the film when it comes out 
Yesterday was also a big day for Tony Wannamaker, Nadine’s camera man. He told me all about it this morning, watch the video:
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7 Comments
2010-01-18
08:42:42
Glad you had some good news for a change.
Keep up the great work. Take care.
2010-01-18
09:21:37
Hi Tony and Nadine and all your crew,
Thank you for your ongoing inside reportage. I can't imagine what it is like on the ground but 'knowing you' from the industry make the blogs even more immediate for me.
My thoughts are with you. Take care
Sonia Shields
2010-01-18
14:44:25
Hello Tony
Your comments touch us all. It's truly unbelieveable what has happened in Haiti. With the current conditions as they are your safety and that of your crew is always in our thoughts.
Take care! Terry
2010-01-19
12:21:16
God Bless you Stephan and Simon.
I'm so happy for you Stephan and I am SURE that you'll be shooting lots of SURVIVORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please take care. I am over the mountains thinking of you both :-)
Be safe and BE the difference :-)
2010-01-19
21:53:18
Dear Inside Disaster Team,
Thank you all for your important and moving work - bearing witness to the lives of all these people. Friends of ours from LA, a dr. and nurse, have also gone to the Dominican to treat the injured.
Special regards to Tony and Nadine - you are amazing.
Bless you all and stay safe. Batsheva
2010-01-20
10:05:23
[...] Or as an earlier post argued- would failing to show such images be a censorship of the truth? [...]
2010-01-21
08:00:44
Inside disaster should leave Haiti. When the goal becomes to film disaster by jumping on top of a victim of the earthquake, it is repugnant and makes me ashamed to be a Canadian. These people are doing nothing constructive except feeding their own ego to make a documentary which will earn them a reward. They are using up precious food and water which Haitians need. These people should throw away their cameras and start doing what is needed in Haiti and that is to help dig out people, bury dead bodies and help with the relief effort. It is my hope that when Inside Disaster is released people will boycott the documentary. I certainly will.