#Radio silence archive

2020 Festival de Huelva Cine Iberoamericano.2020 Millenium Documentary Film Festival.2020 Doc Montevideo, Documentary Week of Uruguay.2020 Human Rights Watch London and New York.A fight against monopolistic concentration of the media, against an authoritarian and corrupt political system, all in a climate undermined by threats and constant intimidation of drug traffickers.Дў019 WorldВ Premiere: ZГјrich Film Festival вЂ“ Documentary CompetitionДў019 International Premiere: IDFA вЂ“ Frontlight RADIO SILENCE immerses us in the fight of Carmen Aristegui, a woman inhabited by an extraordinary courage.

#Radio silence archive

Through testimonials, archive footage and social networks excerpts, we follow Carmen and her team in a large ongoing investigation conducted alongside the construction of her new internet radio station. In some other country this might be an easier task, but in Mexico, where social and economic situation is dominated by drug traffickers and political corruption, Carmen and her team have an uphill battle. This documentary captures CarmenвЂ™s enduring and dangerous fight to recreate a space of freedom of speech and keep informing her listeners. Who is this woman behind famous Mexican journalist? How did she become a popular figure of resistance and freedom of expression in Mexico? Who are her main enemies? Why is she still alive when dozens of her colleagues have been murdered in recent years and months? Does she find herself trapped in a role she did not want to endorse? Despite this exceptional mobilization, the station does not give way. The next day more than 200,000 people demonstrate and sign a petition calling for her return on air and the end of censorship. March 2015, due to political pressure and false pretenses, Carmen Aristegui, the main voice of independent journalism in Mexico, is fired with her team from the MVS Radio station.