My biggest fear as a child was that my mother would die. Yes, you might think––yours and everyone else’s. My fear, however, stemmed from something that seemed contradictory: I was afraid she would be murdered for doing good. When I was a child my mother started her work as a human-rights activist, spending her life empowering people who live on the margins of society and fighting injustice. She’s badass. But in a country like Honduras, where I was born and raised, women like her end up dead.
I am incredibly proud of her now that I’m an adult, but when I was little I didn’t understand why being part of a hunger strike was more important than being home, or why she had to go on trips to places everybody knew were dangerous. Did she not value her life? Every time my mom was on...
I am incredibly proud of her now that I’m an adult, but when I was little I didn’t understand why being part of a hunger strike was more important than being home, or why she had to go on trips to places everybody knew were dangerous. Did she not value her life? Every time my mom was on...
- 1/30/2024
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
In the biographical documentary “Igualada,” the space between the presidential candidate Francia Márquez and the underrepresented Colombians she inspires is often electric with hope, yearning and recognition. Her 2021 campaign and movement motto, reflective of her African roots — “I Am Because We Are” — struck a chord with its deep humility and humanity. The image of a Black woman in a crowd listening raptly, her eyes brimming, comes as confirmation. But the activist turned presidential hopeful inspired anger. When she takes to a podium during a campaign stop, she stands behind the bulletproof shields of a police detail. The gathered can barely see her as she addresses them.
Director Juan Mejia Botero’s documentary, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, is rousing and intimate, making for an often moving, sometimes nerve-wracking ride. It’s those very qualities that also nudge occasional moments of very gentle skepticism: Is this really what the candidate is like?...
Director Juan Mejia Botero’s documentary, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, is rousing and intimate, making for an often moving, sometimes nerve-wracking ride. It’s those very qualities that also nudge occasional moments of very gentle skepticism: Is this really what the candidate is like?...
- 1/27/2024
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Francia Márquez is the current Vice President of Colombia, and Juan Mejía Botero was fortunate to have documented the campaign exclusively and from the beginning. That footage, alongside archival footage of a younger Márquez, makes up the Sundance 2024 documentary Igualada. Ahead of the film’s premiere, cinematographer Gómez Karen Gómez (Sous le silence et la terre) talked about what it was like documenting a campaign that was constantly in motion. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you end up being the director of photography for your film? What were the factors and attributes […]
The post “I Was So Moved to Have Had the Privilege of Capturing This Historic Moment”: Dp Karen Gómez on Igualada first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Was So Moved to Have Had the Privilege of Capturing This Historic Moment”: Dp Karen Gómez on Igualada first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/21/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Francia Márquez is the current Vice President of Colombia, and Juan Mejía Botero was fortunate to have documented the campaign exclusively and from the beginning. That footage, alongside archival footage of a younger Márquez, makes up the Sundance 2024 documentary Igualada. Ahead of the film’s premiere, cinematographer Gómez Karen Gómez (Sous le silence et la terre) talked about what it was like documenting a campaign that was constantly in motion. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you end up being the director of photography for your film? What were the factors and attributes […]
The post “I Was So Moved to Have Had the Privilege of Capturing This Historic Moment”: Dp Karen Gómez on Igualada first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Was So Moved to Have Had the Privilege of Capturing This Historic Moment”: Dp Karen Gómez on Igualada first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/21/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"We are the descendants of free men and women who were enslaved." Human Pictures has revealed a first look festival trailer for a documentary film titled Igualada, premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival kicking off this week in Utah. One highly anticipated world cinema doc film showing at Sundance this year. Black Colombian activist Francia Márquez transforms a derogatory term, "Igualada," into a symbol of rights defiance. Her presidential campaign inspires the entire nation, challenging societal norms. In one of Latin America’s most unequal countries, Márquez, a Black Colombian rural activist, challenges the status quo with a presidential campaign that reappropriates the term "Igualada" — someone who acts as if they deserve rights that supposedly don't correspond to them — and inspires a nation to dream. This looks like a rousing and inspiring story of just how hard it is to fight against incredible oppression, another fascinating tale of tenacity & ambition.
- 1/16/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The United States is approaching an incredibly important election this November, and it seems as if our choices for President are going to come down to two incredibly old, wealthy white men. For the most part, that’s been our choice since the country was founded more than two centuries ago. But the upcoming Sundance documentary, “Igualada,” aims to show that grassroots campaigns can lead to real change and upend the political norms.
Continue reading ‘Igualada’ Exclusive Trailer: The Rise Of Colombian Political Figure Francia Márquez Gets The Spotlight In New Doc [Sundance] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Igualada’ Exclusive Trailer: The Rise Of Colombian Political Figure Francia Márquez Gets The Spotlight In New Doc [Sundance] at The Playlist.
- 1/16/2024
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
New York-based The Film Sales Company has pounced on the worldwide rights to Colombian documentary feature “Igualada” by Juan Mejía Botero ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition sidebar.
Mejía Botero, whose most recent feature documentary “Death by a Thousand Cuts” won the Audience Award at Doc NYC, chronicles politician Francia Márquez’s groundbreaking journey from her start as a rural grassroot activist to her history-making campaign to become not only the first black but also the first female president of her native Colombia.
Given exclusive access, Mejía Botero follows Márquez as she “dares to challenge the status quo by launching a presidential campaign in Colombia, a nation beset by profound racial and socio-economic disparities,” per the synopsis.
Reclaiming the derogatory term “igualada” (used to belittle individuals asserting rights deemed beyond their position in society), Márquez propels a movement into the upper spheres of influence,...
Mejía Botero, whose most recent feature documentary “Death by a Thousand Cuts” won the Audience Award at Doc NYC, chronicles politician Francia Márquez’s groundbreaking journey from her start as a rural grassroot activist to her history-making campaign to become not only the first black but also the first female president of her native Colombia.
Given exclusive access, Mejía Botero follows Márquez as she “dares to challenge the status quo by launching a presidential campaign in Colombia, a nation beset by profound racial and socio-economic disparities,” per the synopsis.
Reclaiming the derogatory term “igualada” (used to belittle individuals asserting rights deemed beyond their position in society), Márquez propels a movement into the upper spheres of influence,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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