We Are Together (Completed )

About the Film

Filmmaker Paul Taylor spent three months in KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) in 2003 volunteering at the Agape Orphanage. He was profoundly affected by his experiences there, the children’s personalities and, in particular, their beautiful singing.

He returned with Teddy Leifer (producer) to make a film and help facilitate the production of the CD that would eventually bring the children to the attention of the world.

WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye) has been more than three years in the making and has involved editors Masahiro Hirakubo (Trainspotting, The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary) and composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, Shooting Dogs, V for Vendetta). WE ARE TOGETHER has won the Audience Award at all of its premieres – at its European premier at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) it received the highest score in the festival’s history to take the award. At its North American premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2007 it won the overall Audience Award, in which it was competing against all 157 documentary and fiction features. WE ARE TOGETHER then went on to scoop the prestigious Audience Award at its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival, beating off stiff competition from fiction and documentary titles, including RATAOUILLE, IN THE SHADOW OF
THE MOON, CONTROL and Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF.

Profits from the theatrical, DVD and soundtrack release of WE ARE TOGETHER will be donated to an education program for the children of Agape and children of Agape and children affected by HIV/AIDS through the RISE foundation, set up by Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer.