Artelier-Belinda De Vito-Domenico Redavid
We were just told on Monday night that the film has won this years’ edition of the International Documentary Festival NodoDocFest. The doc was shown on May 9 as part of the competittive Panorama section, programmed by Fabrizio Arpesella. The awards were given on Monday 11 in the evening. Due to us being at Hot Docs with Forty Foot, we were sorry not to be able to be there to enjoy this great festival and very happy news for Whackala.
This is what the judges said about the film: “[it] showed a clear historical context and evolution of what may be considered “third world” with a simplicity almost incredible in view of the complexity of the topic… For the simplicity of the editing and the close connection with the lives of the characters it was possible for the viewer to get carried by emotions and live the social status of the protagonists.”
April 26, 2009 – 11:09 am
After the Revolution will be available for viewing at the Digital Doc Shop at Hot Docs in Toronto, an international documentary film festival and market, taking place from 30th April until the 10th of May 2009.
Whackala are going to Hot Docs to publicize and sell the documentary. They also have another short doc, Forty Foot, in competition for a price in the Internation Doc Challenge program. You can read more about this in the Whackala website.
Whackala will be meeting potential distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers to find further distribution for After the Revolution.
Hard at work translating
As you can see we’re working very hard at translating the site into Spanish, which the documentary’s original language. Nelo, María Cruz Jiménez’s son is helping me -just kidding this photo is from the first Summer of filming in 2006, I’m not even a fake blonde any more. But Nelo was a great assistant through the whole project and I hope to see him and all the other family’s children soon.
We don’t believe in filming and getting the hell out of a place, particularly on a subject like this, so we became close to the Cruz Jiménez family and other contributors to the film. One of the things we’re doing to help them is contributing to the children’s education, most of them now in primary and some in secondary school, and hopefully we’ll continue helping them if they want to carry on into further education. We’ll have a way for people to contribute to that if they want through the site or directly to Tzome Ixuk, the family’s women’s rights Co-op. Bye for now and more very soon!
February 26, 2009 – 1:17 pm
Hello and welcome to the After the Revolution documentary website! We’re sending the film to lots of festivals and distributors and awaiting responses. If you want to keep informed about the film’s progress keep an eye on our blog.
