The power of speech
Original title: El poder de la palabra
Production: Panchito Films
Country: Chile
Director: Francisco Hervé
Script: Francisco Hervé; Sebastián Brahm
Photography: David Bravo
Year: 2009
Duration: 73
Genre: Social documentary
Color: Color
Original language: Spanish
Languages available: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Synopsis:
Hardy sells trinkets on the buses in Santiago. In 2005, a government project worries him: soon we will be a "world class" country, so we will not be able to continue tolerating his trade. Hardy gathers two thousand colleagues and together they fight not to be marginalized by modernity.
Awards:
Atlantic Doc 2010, Best Photography
Atlantic Doc 2010, Best Editing
FIDOCS 2009, Jury Prize
FIC Valdivia 2009, Audience Award
Viña del Mar 2009, Best Documentary
Altazor 2010, Best Documentary Direction
Pedro Sienna 2010, Best Documentary