Behind the camera lens in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Behind the camera lens in Honduras
Two filmmakers spent months filming the turmoil in Honduras.
By Joseph Huff-Hannon — Special to GlobalPost
Published: June 2, 2010 07:17 ET in The Americas

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Katia Lara and Carlos del Valle grabbed their cameras last June and started shooting: protesters gathered on the Tegucigalpa streets, soldiers firing live rounds into crowds.

They filmed for five months, starting the day the Honduran military kidnapped then-President Manuel Zelaya and kicked him out of the country. They captured shocking images of soldiers beating up journalists and arresting children.

“We found out about the coup from CNN, since the local news stations were all playing cartoons or soccer games,” Valle said.

The police stole their cameras twice, and a number of the people in the film were killed. And so, in December, Lara fled the country for Buenos Aires. Valle followed a month later.

Here in this southern megalopolis, the two have been editing their feature documentary film, "Quien Dijo Miedo: Honduras de un golpe" (rough English translation: "No Fear Here: Inside the Coup in Honduras").

The central narrative thread of the film is of a young Honduran anti-coup activist, who eventually seeks exile in Spain after a bomb is placed under his girlfriend’s car.

Lara and Valle shot hundreds of hours of footage all over the country, and hope their film will help reveal the violence unleashed by the coup, and the illegitimacy of the post-coup elections — in which more than 60 percent of the electorate abstained from voting.

More:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/the-americas/100527/movie-honduras-coup

That old news blackout, concealing reality from the public to protect the coup sounds very familiar by now, doesn't it?

[flamingdem]

1. Wow! I can't wait to see this. I knew someone had to be doing that

yea!! Gutsy people.