Making the Documentary:
IGI / SJ AIDS Awareness Tour (November 2006)
Synopsis
Bill Gibson - Director
An ETM/Powerhouse Productions Presentation

Documentary Film Project

Working Title: Hello India!
Director: William Gibson
Writer: William Gibson
Producers: Richard Bernard, Sanjana Jon, Sashi Abraham, William Gibson

The 2006 IG International/Sanjana Jon AIDS Awareness Tour with Miss Universe.

Log Line: Follow 13 aspiring fashion models as they embark on a mission to a place they have never been before to promote AIDS awareness in India.

The IG international/Sanjana Jon Aids Awareness Tour is the organization that produces a tour each year with the current Miss Universe to bring awareness to the ÀIDS pandemic. The tour begins in Bombay and goes south to Delhi, Chennai and on to Goa and even more cities. Along the way we see what happens behind the scenes with the cast of fashion models as they are exposed to a cultural dynamic that is totally new to them.

Yoga classes
Food experiences
Housing dilemmas
Shopping
Spirituality spots
Travel sightseeing
Runway shows/modeling shoots

Cast:

Designer/Activist Sanjana Jon is the catalyst of the Tour as we follow her interactions and instruction with the models and the organizations in each city in India.

Roston Ogata manages the current Miss Universe from Puerto Rico, Zulyeka Rivera. We see what a manager does and what its like to navigate the new Miss Universe in India.

Justin Perry and his booker John Willington Simon head Empire Models a New York agency traveling and handling the models getting them ready for the runway and fashion shoots with the photographer Steven Shadrach.

Richard Bernard the President of IG International and is the person who interacts with all of the cast and crew.

Models Cast:

Camille Mcdonald
Ivana Demrovsky
Lauren Boyette
Jennifer Borchers
Brittany Cole
Candace Kessler
Ivy Winston
Rebekka Zuefeldt
Mary-Beth Wells
Brittany Novak
Ella Charanin
Holly Gavel
Natalie Jo White

Images courtesy of ten-media ©2006