“One afternoon on my way to work, I coincidently happened to walk past a sand sculpture on the pavement. It stopped me in my tracks: it was quite surreal seeing a life-size sand sculpture of a dog laying there on a grotty London high street. I noticed that the sculptor was Romanian and did not speak English. I later found out that across London and the UK, there are numerous Romanian migrants, all making the same sand sculptures, as a means of survival. Making the film was my way of finding out about the makers and their sculptures. The more I got to know the men, the more I realied they had difficult human stories that needed to be told.
It was particularly timely, as there seemed to be a growing anti immigration sentiment in the UK. It was then that it became clear to me that this would be the subject for my film.“