21 Jun 2010

ECUADOR / JOLIE

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returns after eight years to northern Ecuador, to meet victims of Colombia’s ongoing violence. UNHCR

Posted at: June 21, 2010 1:54 pm

Duration: 02:34

Available in: SD

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STORY: ECUADOR / JOLIE
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2010, ECUADOR

SHOTLIST:

17 JUNE 2010, ECUADOR

1. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie walks in Barenca Bermera with UNHCR
2. Tilt up, Anjelina Jolie arrives at the border with Colombia
3. Wide shot, Barenca Bermera
4. Wide shot, Xavier Creach from UNHCR talks to Angelina
5. SOUND-UP (English) Xavier Creach, UNHCR:
"You are now reaching the border, the river itself, which is the San Miguel River. And on the other side  is Colombia. What you can see is Colombia, so you can see they are very close to the border."  
6. Pan left, San Miguel River
7. Various shots, Angelina Jolie visiting the house of a leader who has been shot last September 
8.  Med shot, Angelina and Xavier Creach in the place where the leader was shot
9. SOUND-UP (English) Xavier Creach, UNHCR: 
"The shooter was hidden over there and you can see all the bullet impact."
10. Various shots, Angelina Jolie meets with refugee Don Julio
11. SOUND-UP (English) UNHCR Staff, Translating:
"When they arrived at first they didn't have anything because they had to leave Colombia in a hurry, the only clothes they brought were the clothes they were wearing at the time. In the year 2000 his daughter's husband was murder and this is when all the problems started. Later they have received the information that paramilitaries were going to kill all his family."
12. Various shots, taking notes
13. Zoom out, from huts to Angelina with refugee Dona Marianela, a woman she met in 2002 
14. Med shot, filling pot with water from a bucket and they discuss the water contamination issue
15. Med shot, Angelina smells the water
16. Zoom in, Angelina and Dona Marianela looking at a mans skin
17. Med shot, Angelina and Dona Marianela

STORYLINE:

Actress Angelina Jolie visited UNHCR field operations and the isolated community of Barranca Bermeja, located in thick jungle on the banks of the San Miguel River, which marks the border with Colombia.

SOUND-UP (English) Xavier Creach, UNHCR:
"You are now reaching the border, the river itself, which is the San Miguel River. And on the other side  is Colombia. What you can see is Colombia, so you can see they are very close to the border."

The little village hosts 34 families, most of them refugees from the violence that has plagued parts of Colombia for decades. Angelina visited the house of a leader who was shot last September.

SOUND-UP (English) Xavier Creach, UNHCR: 
"The shooter was hidden over there and you can see all the bullet impact."

There are around 51,000 registered Colombian refugees in Ecuador, but UNHCR estimates that about 135,000 people are in need of international protection.

SOUND-UP (English) UNHCR Staff, Translating:
"When they arrived at first they didn't have anything because they had to leave Colombia in a hurry, the only clothes they brought were the clothes they were wearing at the time. In the year 2000 his daughter's husband was murder and this is when all the problems started. Later they have received the information that paramilitaries were going to kill all his family."

In Lago Agrío, capital of Sucumbíos province, Angelina had a reunion with a Colombian mother she last met here in 2002. The woman recently was recently treated for cancer, but was hopeful of a full recovery.

Ecuador is the country with the largest refugee population in Latin America. Many of the Colombians live in remote settlements in the north, like Barranca Bermeja, are often too scared to seek help from UNHCR and its partners.

Filed under 13.01.00 - PROTECTION OF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ECUADOR UNHCR - Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.