Still in Motion Interview: Indian DOP / Director of Photography / Cinematographer, Rajiv Jain ICS WICA

scene completely conveys our theme and decides also that we are going to help them. There was a silence and I said, “Are we going to film them, too?” [laughing] It was like this little moment. Obviously, if we had stopped the car next to them and said, “May we film you?,” they would have put the litter down, the woman would have been in pain. We would have had to put her in the car immediately. So we decided that we would pass them, go up the hill. I was going to get out, be with the camera, and film them walking up the hill towards us. I know I’m not there as an aid worker; I’m not there as a doctor. I’m there as a filmmaker. But this thing of having to ask people’s permission—they’re in an urgent situation, etc. This stuff is just going through your head as you’re standing at the top of the hill while people are walking up to you. The woman was in labour and had been for