Journey to Kathmandu Trailer 2010
Journey to Kathmandu: Deluxe Director's & Goats' Edition • 3m 27s
I cut this trailer shortly after returning from filming in Nepal and, if nothing else, is a great example of how often what you initially think a film will be about is not at all the story that you end up with. Especially in documentary filmmaking, the story evolves in ways never imagined.
This was certainly the case with 'Journey to Kathmandu'. And after viewing this early trailer, we can all be thankful that the director had the good enough sense to not continue down the path that was started with this piece!
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The Money in the Shoes
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Original 'J2K' Trailer
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Deleted Mountain Scenes
From the time of a film's first rough cut to the final print, many scenes and sometimes even whole sections do not make the cut. This section - the mountain section - was one of those sections.
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