By Sharron Ward. Originally posted: April 4, 2016. It’s his eyes that I can’t forget. It was Thursday August 27 2015, just after dawn on a beach on the northern coast of the island of Lesvos. An inflatable rubber dinghy heavily weighed down and overloaded with Syrians was making its way precariously across the rough sea. As soon as it neared the rocky shore, dozens of orange lifejackets rose up and disgorged themselves hurling unceremoniously […]

“We have the right to get that paper!” Originally Posted: 4 April, 2016. Filmmaker Sharron Ward writes on her troubling experience filming hundreds of refugees who washed ashore on the Greek island of Lesvos during the Summer of 2015.  Syrian and other refugees and migrants leave the hell of war in the Middle East to arrive in what they think is paradise on the shores of Europe – but instead they find a new kind […]