About the film:

A group of affluent young Australians, all recent graduates of the same Catholic high school, volunteer to teach English in rural Thailand on their gap year. Placed among the Karen hill tribe, an overwhelmingly Christian Indigenous minority in otherwise Buddhist Thailand, they gradually confront the possibility that their presence may be doing more harm than good. Directed by the only non-white volunteer, "Six Months to Salvation" is a self-reflexive documentary not only about whether 'voluntourism' is a modern form of colonialism, but the spiritual struggle to find meaning in one's mission.

About the Director:

Lorenzo Benitez is a Filipino-Australian filmmaker based in New York. His award-winning and critically-acclaimed films, which include two features and several shorts, have been internationally streamed on Amazon Prime Video; programmed at the Maysles Documentary Center and Harvard University; nationally televised in Australia on the ABC, and theatrically exhibited in New York and Melbourne. He has also produced videos for Fortune 500 brands, and has directed collaborators including exiled political activists and Emmy-nominated crew.