Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
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“Matarife”: subversive creativity from exile
A third season of the series “Matarife” will be presented soon. It will once again expose the intricacies of power and its relations with drug traffickers, paramilitaries and corrupt politicians in Colombia. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris Its author, Daniel Mendoza Leal, now exiled in France, has […]
Total impunity in violence against journalists
According to reports by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Colombia ranks a dismal 134th on the scale of countries that rates respect for press freedom in the world, rising several places every year. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris The reputable international NGO denounces a harmful environment for journalism […]
Acid attacks: victims and survivors
Victims often contemplate suicide as a way of escape. They also suffer discrimination when it comes to employment and returning to normal life. According to Acid Survivors Trust International, the majority of the attackers are men. In Colombia around 100 crimes of this type are recorded every year.
Brexit, England and isolationism
However strongly political winds blow, they can’t change geography. When the UK voted to leave the EU in June of 2016, it was due in part to a culmination of decades of anti-EU sentiment and an increasing desire within the UK to return to a time of supremacy, of “independence”. […]