Talal Derki: 'There should not be any more violence in houses, in school against kids, because they are the most sensitive and if violence happens, they will be broken' Photo: Basis Berlin Directing can be deadly. In warzones across the world documentarians put their lives at risk to record the stories that would otherwise go untold, with past casualties including Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, who was killed in 2011 while covering the Libyan Civil War, and French filmmaker Christian Poveda, who, in 2009, is thought to have been executed by gangs in El Savador who were unhappy with his documentary La Vida Loca.
It’s a risk that Syrian documentarian Talal Derki says was worth taking. He previously entered the Syrian warzone for his documentary Return To Homs and, in order to capture the footage for his latest, Of Fathers And Sons, he embedded himself with a radical Islamist family in Syria,...
It’s a risk that Syrian documentarian Talal Derki says was worth taking. He previously entered the Syrian warzone for his documentary Return To Homs and, in order to capture the footage for his latest, Of Fathers And Sons, he embedded himself with a radical Islamist family in Syria,...
- 2/17/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Talal Derki: 'There should not be any more violence in houses, in school against kids, because they are the most sensitive and if violence happens, they will be broken' Photo: Basis Berlin Directing can be deadly. In warzones across the world documentarians put their lives at risk to record the stories that would otherwise go untold, with past casualties including Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, who was killed in 2011 while covering the Libyan Civil War, and French filmmaker Christian Poveda, who, in 2009, is thought to have been executed by gangs in El Savador who were unhappy with his documentary La Vida Loca.
It’s a risk that Syrian documentarian Talal Derki says was worth taking. He previously entered the Syrian warzone for his documentary Return To Homs and, in order to capture the footage for his latest, Of Fathers And Sons, he embedded himself with a radical Islamist family in Syria,...
It’s a risk that Syrian documentarian Talal Derki says was worth taking. He previously entered the Syrian warzone for his documentary Return To Homs and, in order to capture the footage for his latest, Of Fathers And Sons, he embedded himself with a radical Islamist family in Syria,...
- 2/17/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
El Infierno, Chicogrande, and the other nominations of the 2011 Premio Ariel (Ariel Awards) have been announced. The 53rd Annual Premio Ariel (Ariel Awards) are presented by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. “The Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.” The 53rd Annual Premio Ariel (Ariel Awards) “ceremony will take place on May 7 [, 2011] at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.” The full listing of the 2011 Premio Ariel (Ariel Awards) nominations is below
Best Picture
Abel
Chicogrande
El infierno (Hell)
Best Director
Felipe Cazals, Chicogrande
Luis Estrada, El infierno (Hell)
Diego Luna, Abel
Best Actress
Karina Gidi, Abel
Mónica del Carmen, Año bisiesto (Leap Year)
Maricel Álvarez, Biutiful
Úrsula Pruneda, Las...
Best Picture
Abel
Chicogrande
El infierno (Hell)
Best Director
Felipe Cazals, Chicogrande
Luis Estrada, El infierno (Hell)
Diego Luna, Abel
Best Actress
Karina Gidi, Abel
Mónica del Carmen, Año bisiesto (Leap Year)
Maricel Álvarez, Biutiful
Úrsula Pruneda, Las...
- 3/26/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Gang members and ex-policeman who claimed Christian Poveda was an informer jailed for between four and 30 years
A court in El Salvador has convicted 10 gang members and a former policeman over the murder of a Franco-Spanish photojournalist who made an internationally acclaimed documentary about them.
Christian Poveda initially gained the trust of a notorious gang known as Mara 18 in La Campanera, a tough slum in the capital, San Salvador, but in September 2009 was ambushed and shot four times in the head.
The central American country has one of the world's highest homicide rates.
This week a court sentenced Luis Vásquez and José Alejandro Melara to 30 years for planning the murder and two others to 20 years for pulling the trigger and acting as lookout.
A former policeman, Juan Napoleón Espinoza, was jailed for four years as an accessory for telling the gang that Poveda was an informer.
Other officers denied their colleague's claim,...
A court in El Salvador has convicted 10 gang members and a former policeman over the murder of a Franco-Spanish photojournalist who made an internationally acclaimed documentary about them.
Christian Poveda initially gained the trust of a notorious gang known as Mara 18 in La Campanera, a tough slum in the capital, San Salvador, but in September 2009 was ambushed and shot four times in the head.
The central American country has one of the world's highest homicide rates.
This week a court sentenced Luis Vásquez and José Alejandro Melara to 30 years for planning the murder and two others to 20 years for pulling the trigger and acting as lookout.
A former policeman, Juan Napoleón Espinoza, was jailed for four years as an accessory for telling the gang that Poveda was an informer.
Other officers denied their colleague's claim,...
- 3/12/2011
- by Rory Carroll
- The Guardian - Film News
Cologne, Germany -- Some 45% of the European films that received promotional funding from Media-backed Film Sales Support (Fss) system over the past five years secured international sales, European Film Promotion, the group that operates Fss, said Tuesday.
EFP Managing director Renate Rose pointed to European indie tiles such as "Police, Adjective" from Romanian helmer Corneliu Porumboiu; Dominic Murphy's drama "White LIghtnin' " and Christian Poveda's documentary "La vida loca," which all closed territory sales after receiving international distribution support from the FSS.
In total, from 2004-2009, the FSS helped finance the marketing and promotional campaigns of 546 European films. The FSS also supports European sales agents by paying half of the companies' cost for expenses such as promotional material, hiring publicists and launching award campaigns.
Last year, the FSS began offering grants to companies to market European films at the American Film Market, Hong Kong's Filmart, and the Asian Film Market in Pusan.
EFP Managing director Renate Rose pointed to European indie tiles such as "Police, Adjective" from Romanian helmer Corneliu Porumboiu; Dominic Murphy's drama "White LIghtnin' " and Christian Poveda's documentary "La vida loca," which all closed territory sales after receiving international distribution support from the FSS.
In total, from 2004-2009, the FSS helped finance the marketing and promotional campaigns of 546 European films. The FSS also supports European sales agents by paying half of the companies' cost for expenses such as promotional material, hiring publicists and launching award campaigns.
Last year, the FSS began offering grants to companies to market European films at the American Film Market, Hong Kong's Filmart, and the Asian Film Market in Pusan.
- 7/20/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christian Poveda, a French filmmaker who has spent years gathering footage of a brutally violent Salvadoran street gang for his "La Vida Loca" documentary, has been found dead (shot in the head) in a gang-riddled El Salvador neighborhood. Poveda practically lived among members of one gang, the Mara 18, filming gang initiations, drug use, tattoo session and funerals. On the day of his death, he had set out to visit the gang-dominated area of Soyapango, just outside the capital, to arrange an interview with female gang members. In April, Poveda told the Los Angeles Times that despite the drugs, shootings, beatings and cruelty he captured on film, he had sympathy for many of the gang members, whom he described as "victims of society." He placed the blame for their violence on Us policies, and said he "was never afraid of them." "As savage as they can be, they're people of their word.
- 9/6/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
French-Spanish director Christian Poveda was murdered yesterday, after shooting a documentary about the gangs of San Salvador. After making several documentaries about the 1980's civil war in El Salvador, Christian Poveda came to know many criminal gangs in the region. His last film, "La vida loca", is due out soon in France after being shown at international film festivals in the past few months. In "La vida loca", Poveda took a close look at member of the powerful Mara 18 gang, which was founded a few years ago in Los Angeles, and is made up of Salvadorian immigrants who fled the civil w...
- 9/4/2009
- by Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
- Cineman.ch/en
By Amy Kaufman
A French-Spanish filmmaker who documented the lives of the dangerous Mara 18 street gang has apparently been killed by Salvadorean gang members.
Christian Poveda, who produced the 2008 film "La Vida Loca" about tattooed gang members, was found shot in a car on a road 10 miles north of the capital of San Salvador, local police said on Wednesday. He was 53.
Poveda had been driving back from La Campanera, a poor, gang-member-ridden suburb where he had been filming.
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A French-Spanish filmmaker who documented the lives of the dangerous Mara 18 street gang has apparently been killed by Salvadorean gang members.
Christian Poveda, who produced the 2008 film "La Vida Loca" about tattooed gang members, was found shot in a car on a road 10 miles north of the capital of San Salvador, local police said on Wednesday. He was 53.
Poveda had been driving back from La Campanera, a poor, gang-member-ridden suburb where he had been filming.
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- 9/3/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
San Salvador -- Suspected Salvadorean gang members killed French filmmaker Christian Poveda, whose 2008 film "La Vida Loca" crudely depicts the hopeless lives of members of the infamous Mara 18 street gang, local police said Wednesday.
Poveda, 53, was shot on a road 10 miles north of the capital of San Salvador, as he drove back from filming in La Campanera, a poor, overcrowded suburb and a Mara 18 stronghold.
President Mauricio Funes said in a statement on Wednesday night that he was "shocked" by Poveda's slaying and ordered a thorough investigation.
"La Vida Loca" (The Crazy Life) closely followed the lives of several heavily tattooed gang members, some of whom were jailed or killed during the shooting of the film.
Poveda first came to El Salvador in the early 1980s to cover the civil war that ravaged the poor Central American for over a decade. He returned after the armed conflict was over to cover street gangs.
Poveda, 53, was shot on a road 10 miles north of the capital of San Salvador, as he drove back from filming in La Campanera, a poor, overcrowded suburb and a Mara 18 stronghold.
President Mauricio Funes said in a statement on Wednesday night that he was "shocked" by Poveda's slaying and ordered a thorough investigation.
"La Vida Loca" (The Crazy Life) closely followed the lives of several heavily tattooed gang members, some of whom were jailed or killed during the shooting of the film.
Poveda first came to El Salvador in the early 1980s to cover the civil war that ravaged the poor Central American for over a decade. He returned after the armed conflict was over to cover street gangs.
- 9/3/2009
- by By Nelson Renteria, Reuters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A controversial French filmmaker who documented gang life in El Salvador has been shot dead.
Christian Poveda, 52, was found with a gunshot wound to his head in a car just north of the capital San Salvador on Wednesday.
Poveda's 2008 film La Vida Loca (The Crazy Life) followed the violent lives of members of the Mara 18 street gang and even showed disturbing images of gang members shot to death in the streets with relatives crying over coffins.
Police say that Poveda was driving back from filming in La Campanera, an overcrowded ghetto that is a stronghold of the Mara 18 gang, when he was apparently ambushed.
Gangsters are suspected to be behind the killing, according to Britain's The Times Online.
Poveda first came to El Salvador as a photographer in the 1980s to cover its civil war and returned in the 1990s to focus on the Central American country's street gangs.
El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes said in a statement he was "shocked" by Poveda's murder and has ordered a thorough investigation into his killing.
Christian Poveda, 52, was found with a gunshot wound to his head in a car just north of the capital San Salvador on Wednesday.
Poveda's 2008 film La Vida Loca (The Crazy Life) followed the violent lives of members of the Mara 18 street gang and even showed disturbing images of gang members shot to death in the streets with relatives crying over coffins.
Police say that Poveda was driving back from filming in La Campanera, an overcrowded ghetto that is a stronghold of the Mara 18 gang, when he was apparently ambushed.
Gangsters are suspected to be behind the killing, according to Britain's The Times Online.
Poveda first came to El Salvador as a photographer in the 1980s to cover its civil war and returned in the 1990s to focus on the Central American country's street gangs.
El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes said in a statement he was "shocked" by Poveda's murder and has ordered a thorough investigation into his killing.
- 9/3/2009
- WENN
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