Gypsy Caravan   |  Cultural Highlight
Directed by Jasmine Dellal
2006   | 1hr 51 min   |  USA, UK and the Netherlands  | www.gypsycaravanmovie.com

This film is dedicated to Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005 – 2015 - An initiative of 8 governments, the UN, George Soros & the World Bank joining Roma communities to fight poverty and discrimination, prioritizing education, employment, health & housing. www.RomaDecade.org

Synopsis: Gypsy Caravan is a dazzling display of the musical world of the Roma, juxtaposed to the real world they live in. This rich feature documentary celebrates the luscious music of top international Gypsy performers, captured during the World Music Institute’s Gypsy Caravan tour, and interweaves stirring real life looks at their home life and personal stories. Shot by documentary icon Albert Maysles, the film takes place on tour in Europe and in the USA during the concert tour, and on location in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India. Directed by Jasmine Dellal whose previous feature, AMERICAN GYPSY, won international acclaim for its portrait of an American Romani family battling a decade of drama.

About the Director: Jasmine Dellal grew up in England and spent much of her childhood with grandparents in a south Indian village. After studying French & Spanish at Oxford University, she made short films for her Masters at U.C. Berkeley and won a student Emmy for a profile of a homeless photographer, "In His Own Image." Dellal's teacher and mentor in California was the revered Marlon Riggs, with whom she worked on his final feature "Black Is...Black Ain't." In the early 1990s, Dellal stumbled on a book about Gypsies which launched her on a decade of Romani filmmaking.
Dellal directed, produced, wrote & edited her first feature documentary, "American Gypsy: a stranger in everybody's land" (it had a theatrical release; won Best Documentary Awards at prestigious film festivals; and aired on PBS’s acclaimed POV series, drawing the season's highest ratings). Dellal founded Little Dust Productions to make artistic films with a social conscience. Now based in New York, she sometimes works as a producer for other independent directors, she is also Executive Producer for a first-time filmmaker and teaches some classes in the USA and Europe, enjoying guiding new directors to create their own films.