World sales for the film are handled by Anna Berthollet at Sweet Spot Docs.In Ready or Not, filmmaking team Radio Silencetackled one of the most terrifying parts of life: Meeting your partner's odd family. journalism, art and other human means of expression, it influences human lives… They create consciousness, they shape the of people, and they get to the point. “Especially if we look at the documentaries like this one. “Documentary is a very powerful to change reality,” she said. It’s a big challenge for Mexico.”Īsked whether documentary films could be a useful part of that struggle, Aristegui responded strongly in the affirmative. But there is hope, an expectation, for this president and the society that chose him, for a change in the quality of democracy, where we journalists can do our work in freedom and safety and be able communicate our work to the people, not the political powers that be. This change of president by itself cannot change the problem. We cannot charge those murders to the president, but there is still a reality that is still present. in the last few months, even with a new president, there still have been murders of journalists in different parts of Mexico. There are also other local powers-political and criminal-that have more direct control over freedom of expression, and there have been many murders of journalists. These companies have influence on the freedom of expression. In Mexico, just like in other places in the world, there are very big corporate powers that take control of the media. “But not everything is up to the president. “I don’t think Obrador will apply censorship as other Mexican presidents have done in the past,” she continued. The president of Mexican society should consider the value that journalists have in that society.” The president chose to take as the enemy some of the critical media, and I think it’s the wrong way. The president won with by far the most votes, and all the other parties were actually very much debilitated or minimized by his victory. A politician needs an adversary, but that is not the media. “Like, a counter-party, and I think he is mistaken. “The president mentioned some specific media as if they were an adversary,” she said. Nevertheless, she is not expecting an easy ride. So no direct censorship cases against journalists.” “ has promised that, under his government, this won’t happen, such as happened with me and. “The challenge of the new government in Mexico is basically that the old government was critical of the media in the country,” she said. So I decided to transform this energy into a creative energy-to find my tools as a filmmaker and go to Mexico and look for her.”Īristegui doesn’t reveal much of herself in the film, which observes her from a respectful yet still intimate distance, but after the screening she had plenty to say on the subject of censorship in Mexico, even under the rule of recently elected reformist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. I was lost for words-and I lost the words twice, because Carmen’s voice was the bridge between me and Mexico.
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We were starting to learn about this series of very violent events, like the disappearance of the 43 Iguala students… It was really shocking. I was premiering my first feature, and suddenly that voice went silent. “As the film says,” Fanjul recalled, “ started when the program I used to listen to ended suddenly in March 2015. Interviewed by IDFA programmer Maria Campaña Ramia, the Mexican-born Fanjul explained that she now lives in Switzerland, but used to keep up with her homeland by listening to Aristegui’s broadcasts-until, as the film shows, the reporter was fired by her employers and blacklisted by the industry for blowing the whistle on a corruption scandal involving then-President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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