Género: Non fiction
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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Alfonsina and the Road (Alfonsina y la carretera)
The first woman who took part in the Tour of Italy. When they reached the finish line, she had overtaken him by a length of an entire bike. She cut the rope with her hands in the air, laughing and crying, free like she had never been. Organizers, little boys, everyone, jumped back and said…
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Nothing, Nobody (Nada, Nadie)
The voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. After the Mexico City earthquakes of September 19th and 20th, 1985, nothing and nobody would ever be the same again. Panic, desperation, anger, impotence, horror, rescues, solidarity, death, the megalopolis completely destroyed. While a child would get out, unharmed, from under huge debris, somewhere else someone would take…
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Born (Film)
The most expensive ransom in Argentinian history. 14th September 1974. Jorge and Juan Born, heirs and main stockholders of Bunge & Born – the most influential corporation in Argentina during the 20th Century- travel by car when, all of a sudden, a group of Montoneros guerrilla stops the vehicle and kidnaps the brothers. A forced…
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The Ikigai Method (El Método Ikigai)
The worldwide phenomenon that brings us closer to the secrets of a healthy and happy life. According to the Japansese, everybody has an ikigai, a reason to exist. Some have already found it, and they know their ikigai, and some have it inside of them but are still searching for it. This is one of…
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151 Stabs (151 cuchilladas)
“I don’t believe in justice. Life will make him pay.” The story of a famous crime that was left unpunished. On April 27th, 2013, Miguel Ángel Domínguez and his eight-year-old daughter María were brutally murdered in their house in Almonte (Huelva, southern Spain) Someone entered their house and stabbed them 151 times. The little girl got…
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The Happiest Place on Earth (El lugar más feliz del mundo)
An extraordinary trip to the extremes of the human condition. Through the experience obtained for more than 15 years working as reporter in Asia, David Jiménez lives some of the most disturbing and mediatic historical events in the last decades. Jiménez takes the audience to different atmospheres, like when he entered a Cambodian prison where…
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The Editor in Chief (El Director) (Film)
The press promised to tell you the truth. David Jiménez tells you the truth about the press. David Jiménez hardened as a journalist covering wars, disasters and revolutions for almost two decades before being appointed as the director of the newspaper El Mundo. What seemed like an exciting challenge –directing the newspaper where he…
