Director: Alessandro Acito Producer: Luci Macedo
Country: Columbia
Runtime: 52 min
World Premiere
Synopsis
In Colombia Farc guerrillas (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and regular troopers have been fighting for 50 years. Ingrid Betancourt’s story is just the tip of a huge iceberg: 45 millions of people can tell experiences of kidnapping, murder, torture or impressments. Along the nice streets in Bogota you can see the greatest problem of this civil war: millions of people are encamped in squares and parks, protesting and trying to get by. They are desplazados, evacuated from the countryside. They lost everything because of death threats by some armed group, ending up helpless in a town full of spies and killers. But you can find also amazing stories. Rosita Poveda, for example, is a native peasant evacuated to Bogota, who didn’t resign herself to despair: she’s transforming a rubbish dump in a farm where she teaches organic agriculture also to students from abroad. Rosita is poor, but her project will be always growing…
Directors
Alessandro Acito and Leonardo Valderrama
Alessandro Acito has been working as a documentarian since 2001, first for TV and then as a freelance. In 2005 he directed “Sms, Sri Lanka My Sri Lanka”, a documentary film about the situation in Sri Lanka after the tsunami and the philanthropy via sms. Later, in 2006 he was the curator of the documentary-installation“Indiani Padani” (18’, 4 timeline and 4 video sources). Artist versatile and fond of history, in 1996 Alessandro also published the historical essay Fra Ginepro da Pompeiana (a fascist friar’s story).
Leonardo Valderrama Gonzalez studied Cinema and Screenwriting at Scuola Civica and La Macchina dei Sogni in Milan. After working as production assistant in different shorts, he directed: “Pellegrino”(2008) and “No More Angels” (2009). In 2009 he was production assistant in the Colombian full-length “Calle Caliente”.
