page_title: Ikland
section_title: Filming
hierarchical_section_title: Ikland / Production / Filming
caption_attribution_description: English: village of the Ik people in northern Uganda, taken in 2005
context_page_description: Ikland is a documentary film about a journey through the mountains of northeastern Uganda, along the Kenyan border, toward an encounter with the notorious Ik. Ikland was produced by Cevin Soling, and directed by Soling and Hilbert David.
  The Ik were famously described as callous and indifferent by anthropologist Colin Turnbull in his 1972 ethnographic book The Mountain People. Ikland recounts an adventure in travel, revisits Turnbull's description in the context of local circumstances, and reveals Ik people and culture in a more circumspect way.
context_section_description: Pluth sustained injuries from an elephant attack in late 2004, which delayed production for several months. Soling flew with Walker from New York to Entebbe in February 2005. There they met Pluth, Smaglick, and assistant director Lawrence Owongo. While traveling north, the team was arrested by the Uganda People's Defence Force, who released them only after destroying much of their footage.
  The Ik were terrified that the crew might be agents of the Lord's Resistance Army, and stayed away until they felt sure of their safety. According to Soling, the tribe was unaware of The Mountain People text, but did know of a man called Turnbull who had spread "malicious lies" about them. It took time for the villagers to grow comfortable with the crew, but interviews thereafter were loose and conversational.
caption: The Ik village in northern Uganda
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