Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of emigration. He speaks about the shame of being forced to leave your roots for economic and political reasons. When politicians criminalize migrants, while permitting their exploitation, film must speak out. […]
Migrants
“Monos”: War, the human condition, the animal condition
Recreation is part of the day to day of war, especially when it is boys and girls who are there in the line of fire. A group of teenagers in the face of a military conflict. Santiago Zapata is the producer of this film, which has been selected as a […]
The drama of an immigrant woman in the UK
Abused and almost killed in Latin America by her ex-partner, she fled to Spain where she encountered racism. She has been in London for three years and now faces exploitation in the workplace: including not being paid, being overworked to the point of not being able to walk and suffering verbal abuse.
Migrant workers in the UK: The silence of the innocents
In their workplaces, 16% of Latin American women suffer abuse: from physical violence, insults and threats to sexual harassment, verbal comments of sexual content, sexual abuse and even rape. They do not report them and when they happen, managers look the other way and the aggressors go unpunished.
A mother’s despair… The kidnapped son
After two years of court proceedings, Karol Marmolejo lives with the anguish of the second kidnapping of Angelo, her 9-year-old son. His father, Rafael, is the perpetrator. In a conversation with The Prisma, Karol told her story of the incessant search for her youngest son.
















