Forgotten People
9 min. 30 sec. / documentary / 2000 / USA

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Forgotten People was shot by WITNESS partner Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI), and is narrated by Susan Sarandon. It documents the inhumane conditions faced by individuals with mental disabilities situated in grossly understaffed, inadequate and neglectful psychiatric facilities around the world.

Sam Gregory - filmmaker
Sam, WITNESS Program Coordinator, recently completed a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which he attended on a Kennedy Scholarship. A Graduate Student Fellow at the Center for International Development, he also focused his studies on strategies for influencing opinion and the interaction of the press and policy/politics, and helped organize the Harvard International Development Conference. During the course of his Masters, Sam worked in Vietnam for Oxfam GB preparing a program manual for Oxfam-partner interactions in the country, and authored a report for Oxfam America on how to enhance communication strategies during humanitarian emergencies. After completing his degree, Sam worked as producer on a documentary on Russia, and volunteered at WITNESS. Prior to the Kennedy School, he worked as a researcher/producer in London, England, working on news and magazine programming and also researching human rights and environmental issues. He has taught English in Spain and Nepal. Sam has a B.A. (First Class) from Oxford University in History and Spanish, and was a Thomas White Scholar of St. John's College and a University prize-winner in Spanish.