I have a distinct childhood memory, of a scene from a film I saw, where a man is looking at a blue flower, which I remember as a blue rose. Steve Latham The image has stayed with me, throughout my life: a picture disconnected from anything else, anything […]
The Prisma News
Tortured and disappeared in 1985: the truth remains hidden
In November 1985, the Palace of Justice in Colombia went up in flames. The then-guerrilla group, M-19, had taken over its facilities and, after confronting the government and military forces, tragedy erupted. The result was almost 100 dead people, with several tortured or disappeared. Eleven cafeteria workers never imagined that it was going to be the last time that they would see their families. Today the truth remains hidden.
Exile and redemption: protesting in a foreign land
After a childhood of war tanks, brutality and protest, Miryam Ojeda was forced to flee her homeland in her early twenties. Despite living as an exile in the UK, she campaigns for peace and justice for Colombians every day. Elle McHale In the late 1970’s the city of […]
The fear of the black man
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’. […]
“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 […]
















