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green tide is a documentary directed by the Colombian Ángel Giovanni Hoyo, who is fully immersed in the demonstrations in favor of legalization of abortionclosely following the sanction of the law in the year 2020, and which returns to the INCAA Km 0 Room (what was the Gaumont cinema) this Thursday 21 July, a few meters from where the events took place.
“The film was not a planned project, as traditionally happens when you sit down and put together a script. It was only when I started shooting that I realized that it could be a film, but it was something more intuitive. As an immigrant, the attention. that the legalization of abortion has been so openly requested in the public space, “the director told Télam.
The film features testimonials from Mabel Belluci, Eliana Riaño Vivas, Celeste Macdougall, Lola Cufré and Stella Manzano, among others. The Hoyos camera runs through the vicinity of the Congress while thousands of protesters gathered under the impulse of the National campaign for the right to legal, safe and free abortion who flock to wait for the vote, first deputies and then senators.
The documentary closely follows the sanction of the law in 2020. Press photo
“What moved me most was seeing these women on the street claiming their rights. In fact, the theme of the film for me is not abortion, but struggle. Later, everything started to grow and where ‘there were a hundred people, there began to be three hundred and it was another mass. It was six years and almost forty hours of raw material that was being filmed, but there was never a plan, there was a concern “, he said.
Testimonials
At the 2020 conference, Hoyos adds her own material, photographs and testimonies of feminist activists from recent decades, putting on the screen the affirmation of a part of society that has been present for decades.
The director added photographs and testimonials from feminist activists from the past few decades to the 2020 conference.
When asked why do you think that in many popular neighborhoods, as many social leaders claim, where there should be more victims of clandestine abortions, there are also many women who disagree with the law ?, the director understands that the answer is difficult.
“Because in these neighborhoods there are religious and conservative dogmas as a solution to a state vacuum, and that vacuum boils down to the lack of education, health, housing and opportunities. Then, the church becomes the place of refuge and ideological and political space, “He said.
Angel Giovanni Hoyos, the Colombian director of the documentary.
The director never asked himself how the debate itself questioned him, “because I wasn’t sure I was making a film either. It was once finished, in the exchange with social actresses and festival audiences, that I started the question for myself. I think the film should be judged from its point of view and what it is like as a work. If I had started making the film from those premises, it would have been another … The film of a man who talked about abortion and, I insist, I was always mobilized by the struggle to win a right “.
“I’ve always been surrounded by a team of women – the producer, editor, colorist and sound director are women,” he said. “A film is not just the director, it is a collective event and in this collective event there is no prejudice about how things should be, but I am a simple observer of the events that are reported”.
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Source: Clarin
