Stylecheck: Those glasses and her top. She was also the sweetest! Profession: Running a recordstore on the street of McLeod Ganj, India Age: What did I tell you about asking ladies about their age..?
Style check: Notice the cigarette she keeps behind her ear. Profession: Cashier at Wal-Mart (Hawaii, US) Age: Don't ever ask a woman above 20 about her age.
People wanted to see the winning film several times during this trip. So here it is again - my application film to MrJet that made me win the competition going around the world!
The story goes like this: my dear stepmother phoned me and said "There's a job I think suits you perfectly. An online travelagency is looking for someone going around the world to wherever they like and blog about it". I didn't think she got it right. When I realized it was true, I quickly put a filmclip together and didn't tell anyone about it. Then I went to France for a scriptwriting workshop that I'm doing this year. Less than a week later I've got a phonecall from MrJet; "Where are you, we already interviewed the other two people that went to the final and you're not even answering your mail." Since I was in France I couldn't make it to the interview, I wouldn't be back in Stockholm until the week after and then it was too late. Then MrJet decided to postpone the deadline for chosing the finalist, and I went for a nervous interview the following week. Afterwards I thought I didn't get it, and went for a sad lunch with my mother. When we were having our coffe I've got the phonecall; "Do you want to make your dreamtrip around the world?"
So, as a classic oneliner I'd like to say; I wouldn't been able to do this without the incredible support of my mothers! Thankyou.
I went to Paris in the weekend with Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten (the scriptwriter who met up with me in Chiang Mai two weeks earlier). Met some wonderful people and most of all; had REAL French croissants for breakfast! Oh lala...
Gasper 18 years old working in a café in Paris dreaming about being happy. It seemed like he was already living his dream. He makes pretty good omelettes with goatscheese and mint (!) too.
Åsa Riton won her dream trip and will travel the world during 54 days as a reporter for MrJet / ebookers. She'll visit Iceland, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Samoa, Tokyo, Chiang Mai, Ladakh/India and Venice. Follow her trip every day between July 23 - September 16!
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Åsa Riton is a filmmaker and a keen traveler with a past as a Padi divemaster in Sweden and abroad.
After graduating from Central St Martins in London and The National Filmschool of Denmark she has shown her work at the Gothenburg International Film Festival, Helsinki Short Film Festival, Kulturhuset Stockholm and London Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Apart from making video installations, she has directed shortfilms, documentaries, science mockumentaries and music videos. She makes ordinary things interesting by twisting popular culture, politics, philosophy and human nature into a world of her own.